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True. It also never claims to be. The very first part says that this is only a writeup for people who are not intimately familiar with why "dynamically typed"
by phorese 12y ago
True. It also never claims to be.
The very first part says that this is only a writeup for people who are not intimately familiar with why "dynamically typed" might slow down Python.
- falcolas 12y agoBased off my own experience, dynamic typing has much less to do with slowness than the plethora of string copying which occurs in your typical python script.
- blt 12y agobut for scientific computing with numbers - the author's target audience - dynamic typing is the main bottleneck.
- dragonwriter 12y agoThere's ways to avoid that, where it matters, though its a pretty common thing in naive Python/Ruby, true.