I thought that type stability was actually a crucial notion in real-world dynamic language implementations? Witness inline caches and polymorphic inline caches, for example.
The concept is certainly not new, but googling "type stability" seems to only turn up Julia-related pages or other, unrelated uses of the term, so it seems like this usage may have been coined in the Julia community. If you find prior uses with this meaning, please do let me know.
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I thought that type stability was actually a crucial notion in real-world dynamic language implementations? Witness inline caches and polymorphic inline caches, for example.
The concept is certainly not new, but googling "type stability" seems to only turn up Julia-related pages or other, unrelated uses of the term, so it seems like this usage may have been coined in the Julia community. If you find prior uses with this meaning, please do let me know.
Yeah seems so. Perhaps worth having a wikipedia page for it now!