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		almostgotcaught 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler yes there is: https://wiki.python.org/moin/UsingSlots people really don't know enough about this to be talking about it with such confidence...

dontlaugh 4 months ago [–]

I was pointing examples of the opposite, that JavaScript is less dynamic than Python.

There's lots of Python code out there that relies on not using slots. If you're making a JIT, you can't assume that all code is using slots.

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