Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> said:
>Agreed.  I guess I kind of meant heavy-duty number crunching when I said "raw speed", which mostly applies to simpler programs/algorithms.  The more complex your application becomes, the more important productivity becomes, so that larger/complex apps will often run faster when written in something like Smalltalk.
>
Plus that I think that even for heavy-duty number crunching it's only
"the inner loop" (for some value of inner loop) that counts. Usually
small enough to be hand-optimized in C (or ran through Slang - anyone
ever used that to speed up things? Does it work?). No need for primitive
types at the level of your application language, in any case.

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