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jl6 on Feb 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures

What language features would you have or not have if you designed a language with knowledge of "modern JIT technology"?

andreasvc on Feb 13, 2014 [–]

If I would guess, I would say that you want to design the language in such a way that things such as types are typically easy to guess for the JIT compiler.

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