Dotty Linker - Precise Types Bring Performance

Explore the innovative Dotty Linker, a groundbreaking whole-program optimizer for Scala code, in this 52-minute conference talk from Scala Days Berlin 2016. Discover how more expressive type systems can drive powerful optimizations and enhance program performance. Learn how the Dotty Linker significantly reduces the performance overhead of popular Scala features, including generic methods and classes, lazy vals, implicit conversions, and closures. Gain insights into how precise types can be leveraged not only for safety and documentation but also for substantial performance improvements in Scala programming.