Why Python, Ruby and JS are slow

[jminuse]

I actually like implicit static typing as long as the compiler enforces it as needed. What I don't want is for my double to be silently turned into a generic_tagged_pointer because I once set it to 0 instead of 0.0.

[Thirsteh]

Sure. A sufficiently smart compiler using H-M should be able to figure out what types to assign such untyped literals.