There's also the Self system. Self is a language derived from
Smalltalk but which uses prototypes+(delegation+cloning) instead of
objects+(inheritance+instanciation). It is "highly dynamic" in that it
offers multiple and dynamic delegation. But still: they claim being
with a factor of 2 to 3 relative to C. Of course, you could argue
it is compiled, but from the user point of view, it is interpreted
(who cares what's really going on, right ?)
And as far as I can tell, SCM (a scheme interpreter written in C and
that doesn't even compile to bytecode or threaded code) is generally
about 10 times slower than C (for integer style code) even though it
offers bignums, array bounds checking and the likes.
Stefan
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