Re: Matrix Multiplication

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> "Pascal Obry" <pascal_obry@csi.com> writes:
> 
> > Well I don't know what is a fast or slow language !!
> 
> I do.  A fast language is one for which it is feasible to build
> compilers that generate fast code.  A slow language is one for which
> that is not feasible.

If, for example, Ada required runtime range checks which were illegal to
disable or no mechanism was available to remove them, then you'd have a
"slow language" - right? Or if the definition of "floating point" in Ada
were such that it was impossible to map to machine hardware (some
bizarre requirement to use packed decimal representation, or to use so
many bits that nobody's hardware would support it, or something
similar.) then the language itself would be slow.

There are lots of ways I can think of to make a language slow. Maybe we
need to have a "slowest language construct" contest? Everyone submits
their favorite "slow" feature (From Ada or any other language) and we
challenge the compiler writers to find the fastest possible
implementation? What does the winner get - besides the extra work of
implementing the optimized feature? :-)

MDC
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