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Re:Grumpy: Go running Python by naasking on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:17PM (#13321680)
> Although Grumpy is compiled, it is just as dynamic as Python, in that method dispatch involves dictionary lookups, etc.

Right, I suppose I assumed that straightforward numerical-looking code would be translated to Go numerical code. Perhaps they just aren't that ambitious yet.

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Re:Grumpy: Go running Python by trotterdylan on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:03PM (#13323787)
We hope to implement optimizations like you're describing eventually. But the core functionality needs a lot of work before we start down that path.
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