Re: blip [Re: Dynamic typing -- To Have and Have Not ...]

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From: Chris Dollin
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 10:35

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Dan tails with:

   Would you write a compressor in a dynamically typed language?

Odd you should ask that, but when I was trying to understand LZ compression, I
did just that.

It was fast enough. For a production version, I would have tightened up the
code, using my knowledge of the properties of the program - including types, of
course. [Actually I rewrote it in C because Pop11 wasn't - and alas, still
isn't - available on my home machine, but C is. Over the next year or so my Pop
clone should gradually start to generate native code; it will be an interesting
experiment to compare speeds then.]

--

Regards, Kers.      | "You're better off  not dreaming of  the things to come;
Caravan:            | Dreams  are always ending  far too soon."

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