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From:
Thomas Sandlaß
Date:
March 9, 2005 01:58
Subject:
Re: Argument Patterns
Message ID:
422EC8BE.9030209@orthogon.com
Luke Palmer wrote:
> But we always have enough knowledge to optimize the hell out of this,
> and they're not not handwavy "we can probably" optimizations.  They're
> real, and they're pretty darn easy.

I fully agree. But I like to add that a single 'where' on general
types like Int, Str or even Any can seriously harm performance
because than the dispatcher has to check it always and everywhere!
So the Perl 6 type system let's you have your rope and tie yourself.
Well, that is late binding :)
-- 
TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)



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