That’s literally all compiler people do.. if we see a pattern people are using 80 percent of the time we find a way to make it better. There are ways to make
ObjC better optimized at the compiler and runtime level but no one is exactly asking for patches for doing so for objc for very obvious reasons (which I am not going to discuss on a public forum).
I know. My point is that in lots of cases it is unnecessary and in fact unhelpful.
> make it better
Well, you first need to get agreement from your language users on what constitutes "better". Removing the dynamism from a dynamic language does not make it "better".
> Well, you first need to get agreement from your language users on what constitutes "better". Removing the dynamism from a dynamic language does not make it "better".
I think that depends on if said dynamism is being intentionally used. Far too often it is not, and it gets even worse when that is paired with tools that do automated source code generation like the kinds Meta and Google use (or misuse depending on your definition).
The compiler people don't need to optimise for the common case.