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Comment by rienbdj

13 hours ago

So rather than provide a runtime or compiler optimization, we force the programmer to do it by hand. This is why I don’t like Python philosophically.

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j2kun  12 hours ago

I don't believe Python had a compiler in 2006...

  • chubot  10 hours ago

    Python has always had a bytecode compiler that did some minor optimizations, since its inception in the 90's. The issue is that optimizations are very hard to do correctly in the compiler because Python is so dynamic. Any piece of code could suddenly redefine mytype.__add__() and so forth.