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Re: How Come This Binary Op Doesn't Work?

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?hoo.com> Jul 13, 2007
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> One of the many reasons I never liked sequence ops.
> 
> Regards,
> Pete

I like the idea behind sequence ops, but are they really used that often?

When I was doing Computer Language Shootout stuff I tried to find ways to use
sequence ops but for the kinds of benchmarks they had sequence ops were either
more difficult to implement or sometimes even slower than the more obvious
implementations.

Now if sequence ops used some kind of SIMD instructions in the interpreter and
were actually faster than iterating, that would be nice. But then that version of
the interpreter wouldn't run on older machines.

Just musing.

--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.