Abstract: Static type inference is an effective way to maintain the safety of programs written in a dynamically typed language. However, foreign functions implemented in another programming language ...

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Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

1 Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research (FGSSR), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. 2 Department of Information Systems, Higher Institute of Advanced ...