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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by nly on Saturday May 10, 2014 @07:33AM (#7725091)
If the compiler can infer the type locally then so can I. At least for reasonably well structured code.
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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by cousin_it on Saturday May 10, 2014 @08:39AM (#7725186)
I thought type inference in Haskell or ML was a global algorithm.
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