alt Hacker NewsI didn’t say that. I’m highlighting a specific challenge of getting predictable performance over the lifetime of code.
Lower-level languages don’t have this same problem to the same extent. They have other problems Scala doesn’t have.
I didn’t say that. I’m highlighting a specific challenge of getting predictable performance over the lifetime of code.
Lower-level languages don’t have this same problem to the same extent. They have other problems Scala doesn’t have.
> Lower-level languages don’t have this same problem to the same extent.
Of course they have.
If the computer would directly execute what you write down in what you call "low level language" this would be slow as fuck.
Without highly optimizing compilers even stuff like C runs pretty slow.
If something about the optimizer or some other translation step of a compiler changes this has often significant influence on the performance of the resulting compilation artifacts.