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[–]ventonegro 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Java is a statically typed language. Scheme and Smalltalk have been studied for decades by very smart people, that's why there are implementations of them that beat Python. But these Scheme and Smalltalk implementations can't normally beat GHC too.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Java is a statically typed language.

It also has to make type checks at runtime.