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Thinking in Array Languages with Alex Shroyer

Software Unscripted

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The Importance of Performance in Programming

The array languages are kind of well suited to take advantage of that, you know, mechanical sympathy with the hardware. Because these like operations are so constrained to what they can do, that means you are allowed to in the interpreter run the fast path. You don't have to be like, oh, but what if it's a other type? Well, there's only like four types to choose from. So you just write all those things. Nice. This is great. I came into this conversation knowing very little about array languages beyond the syntax. And yeah, that turned out to be a lot of depth to this thing. Oh, yeah. Appreciate the chance to just ramble

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