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Robert Bernecky

The Array Cast

CHAPTER

The Magic of Loop Folding

SAC started off looking suspiciously like APL. It had it had primitives in it to do, oh, I'm going to do a rotate. And then a summer long line, I think it was bowed up, but you'd have to talk to him and Clemens and maybe Stefan Herr who would look at it. So they tried to create a standard library that includes the primitive definitions of SAC code using with loops. They're not compiled. They're just like astandard library that includes files. All the all balls are effectively, well, they aren't in source code again. And so it's able to apply optimizations across the board. There is no stuff about

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