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From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:00:09 -0400

> > > This discussion made me curious whether good high-level languages are being
> > > developed for scientific computing.
> >
> > On the D newsgroups, there was some discussion of their template
> > mechanism being used to generate near optimal x87 code for linear
> > algebra stuff.
>
> isn't mmx much faster tha x87 instructions these days?

It was a proof-of-concept of the power of D's template and macro
system; see <http://www.dsource.org/projects/mathextra/browser/trunk/blade/BladeArticle.txt>.

--Joel

-- 
It reverses the normal flow of conversation.
> What's wrong with top-posting?
> > Top-posting.
> > > What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions?