• Kagamin <spam here.lot> May 07 2010
• Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> May 07 2010

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Johan Granberg Wrote:

 There is another use for array ops as well, that is to create a nice syntax
 for doing the same operation over all elements in an array. Matlab is doing
 this in a very nice way and it is far from all uses that requiers optimal
 speed. 


I actually saw butthurt about matlab being not a speed demon.

Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> writes:

Kagamin wrote:

 Johan Granberg Wrote:
 
 There is another use for array ops as well, that is to create a nice
 syntax for doing the same operation over all elements in an array. Matlab
 is doing this in a very nice way and it is far from all uses that
 requiers optimal speed.


 I actually saw butthurt about matlab being not a speed demon.


It is true that in some cases the lack of speed hurts. But if the coice is
about not being able to do this array operations at all. I think it is an
acceptable tradeof that the people that need optimal speed write there code
in a more uncompressed formm using manual loops or wathewer. Then the cases
not on the criitical path of the program can be written more compactly
using a slightly slower but much faster to write style. I also think this
would hur D less than matlab as it is more obvoius what is slow in D than
in matlab because D is a systems programing language.