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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: on using array index, vectorized operation
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:43:26 -0700
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On 3/27/2011 3:37 PM, Phil Clayton wrote:
>
> My advice would be to stick to the loop version, with
> temporary variables if necessary, as that is most traceable to the
> original text and surely the most maintainable.
>
> Phil
>

I think you are right in this advice :)

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.

Any way, no language is perfect.

--Nasser