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What Affects Array Language Performance?
The Array Cast
The Performance of Apl in the Early Days
Apl was pretty competitive definitely with other interpreted languages in the early days and even apl 360 had already had packed bitbullions which is a pretty fancy optimization. Iverson did not care about performance he appears to have been very lucky in stumbling on this paradigm that is inherently high performance so much so that some of the vector instructions in CPUs now in in AVX5 they compress and expand instructions are just lifted directly from apl. TensorFlow's big advantages doing that for you automatically were actually having a better feature set for machine learning and secondarily the performance because you do need to run on GPUs if you're going to learn anything fastYeah I don't think there really would
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