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From: Phil Clayton <phil.clayton@lineone.net>
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Subject: Re: on using array index, vectorized operation
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:59:32 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 27, 11:43=A0pm, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> But it is hard to go back to using explicit loops when one
> is used to working with vectorized operations.
>
> I would also think loops will be slower, because vectorized
> operations could be much more optimized by the compiler and such.

Something along those lines was discussed not so long ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/99210dd26=
e04d959#


> Any way, no language is perfect.

I find the language containing just the word "no" perfect in many
situations.  Unfortunately, so does my bank.

Phil