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Dart will not actually optimize based on type annotations; it will optimize based on watching what the actual internal types of objects are, and generating specialized code for the common cases. From an interview with Lars Bak:

http://gototoday.dk/2011/10/10/lars-bak-on-dart/



This sounds exactly like Strongtalk's optional type system.




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