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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by nicoburns on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:28AM (#18979655)
> If you don't use type annotations, a new method will be generated whenever you call the function with new argument types.

Damn. That's a pretty clever trade off between dynamic and static types.

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by vanderZwan on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:05PM (#18980054)
I vaguely recall a talk by Stefan Karpinsky where he mentions meeting one of the big names in compiler land (working on V8 or something) and they said Julia's JIT is just a lazily evaluated AOT compiler, and as a result much simpler than the JITs typically seen in other languages.
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