Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!itcyyz!yrloc!hui From: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui) Subject: Re: what is j? Message-ID: <1991May20.122605.16936@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> Reply-To: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui) Organization: Iverson Software Inc. References: <199113.993.337@canrem.uucp> <3970007@hpwrce.HP.COM> <1991May18.004902.29060@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <1991May18.042957.704@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <1991May20.045753.14595@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> Date: Mon, 20 May 91 12:26:05 GMT Robert Bernecky writes: >The point I want to make is that I think of compiled code as being >something that runs about the same speed as the same algorithm coded >in C, the above statement notwithstanding. Ten or a hundred times >slower doesn't count. Bob, you should try timing nub0 =. ~. against nub1 =. #~ i.@# = i.~ The former, being primitive, is coded in C; the latter is an example of a "compiled" tacit definition. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Hui Iverson Software Inc., 33 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2K9 (416) 925 6096