From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7871fcf50704290900m27a0d5dflffedfb8ca1e2f4c9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:00:09 -0400 From: "Joel C. Salomon" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7871fcf50704281939o4b600d97jf111402e7d805c55@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 525fa5aa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > > 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 . --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?