Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!usc!merlin.usc.edu!usc.edu!raulmill From: raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: APL2 on IBM's vector processors Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 01:10:00 GMT References: <745@h-three.UUCP> Sender: news@merlin.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 11 In-reply-to: ned@h-three.UUCP's message of 27 Oct 89 19:32:47 GMT ;> I read an article in the Oct. 2 Computerworld that IBM has added ;> support to APL2 for their vector processors. Does anyone know ;> anything about this? I'd like to know what the support is. Is it ;> embedded in the implementations of the different primitive ;> functions, or is it simply an auxiliary processor or some other ;> loosely coupled approach? A number of primitives will use the vector processing facility (as long as the arrays are large enough). Also, some idioms are recognized and dealt with specially. --