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From: mark@apple.UUCP (Mark Lentczner)
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Subject: Re: Lisp Machines
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I would claim that if 99.999999% of your runtime checks are actually 
knowable at compile time then you are not taking advantage of the
polymorphic properties of the system.  In the code I've seen and
written for polymorphic systems I'd say that less than 50% of the
checks are knowable at compile time if even that many.

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