Hello Avi,

Saturday, October 16, 2004, 2:33:30 PM, you wrote:

>> My 2 cents: since we'd do that to get performance, and 90% of the time
>> is spent on less than 10% of the code, we should only see the optional
>> type tags in less than 10% of the code - otherwise it has no value.
AB> Why for performance?  One of the cool things about animorphic was that
AB> the type annotations were completely ignored by the JIT, even though
AB> they were available.  The runtime info, I assume, was better.

I thought the whole point of animorphic was speed.  But maybe the
optional type tags have extra value that I don't see now.

Andres.