Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by tonyg on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:43AM
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I think those few, crucial pieces of hand-written assembly language one sees from time to time disagree with you. (Modulo your observation that assembly languages are trivially statically typed.)
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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by naasking on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:39AM
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> I think those few, crucial pieces of hand-written assembly language one sees from time to time disagree with you.
I still don't think so. For example, plenty of silicon is spent on branch predictors simply because addresses and integers aren't distinguished, in general, thus permitting more expressive but costlier code.
Execution would be much faster if integers and addresses were forced to be distinct. Static typing pretty much always improves performance.