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From: rober@weitek.UUCP (Don Rober)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Was: RISC is a nasty no-no! More to the point: Supercomputer addresses
Message-ID: <8436@weitek.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 01:43:51 GMT
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In article <24737@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> lisper@yale-celray.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper) writes:
>In article <7690@pur-ee.UUCP> hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:
>
>If we had a language that specifies nothing but the
>functionality of accessing an array element, that is: the only thing we know
>about a(i,j) is that it returns the current value of a(i,j) when referred
>to, then an optimizing compiler for that language would have much more room
>to play around with different storage orderings in order to minimize access
>time. Isn't this a nice argument against using a language like FORTRAN in
>scientific computing?
>
Interesting. For all of its warts, APL displays these properties.
For years it was the highest performing scientific language on the
Burroughs B6000/B7000 series of machines.-- 
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