To Rev or not to Rev

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Wed May 4 21:32:42 EDT 2005


amen! I used to take Tom Pittman's advice for Compilit and use his 
notation for integers - % and they screamed with speed... and the old 
Hyperbasic XCMD generator had great array capabilities. I don't mind 
typing variables optionally if it speeds up things.

sqb

At 7:30 PM -0400 5/4/05, Dennis Brown wrote:
>This BZ on arrays would be a welcome enhancement, but it would not 
>improve the speed of processing arrays.  I was thinking along the 
>lines of a high speed array processing instruction subset.  They 
>would be less flexible than what we have now --the nice flexible 
>data types, dynamic memory allocation, and flexible key names are 
>what costs the operators so much time to execute.  Just let me 
>define the dimensions and data size for a fixed memory allocation 
>and provide operators that work on fixed data types.  It should fly 
>through the array calculations at least ten times faster.  I just 
>entered a BZ request for it.  If you agree, vote.
>
>BZ# 2813
>
>Dennis


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