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Robert Bernecky

The Array Cast

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How to Make Primitives Beat Hand-Coded Languages

There are two different ways to do it, which in my mind is not good. I think we go back and look at the kind of problem that sort of primitives likes to solve. Roger Moore and Larry Breed bless us all, both Grace Marie Hopper award winners for their work on APL360. They said, well, let's take scalar functions because they're simple and write a JIT compiler for so it would see 8 plus B.

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