alt Hacker NewsHmm yeah good point. I didn't think of it. It might even be cheaper to do this when the list of possible types are closed and few.
I am still inclined to believe AI just made up the documentation though, because this has its own tradeoffs.
Hmm yeah good point. I didn't think of it. It might even be cheaper to do this when the list of possible types are closed and few.
I am still inclined to believe AI just made up the documentation though, because this has its own tradeoffs.
> might even be cheaper to do this
Oh yeah, very often. Especially if it's a loop and resolves the same way very often.
Modern CPUs just blaze through code like this, after three decades optimizing for object oriented and dynamic languages.