Re: LW compiler optimizations

"David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Another feature of the language that got me impressed was array slicing, which was also extremely well optimised and worked seamlessly. One would simply had to use expressions like
> 
> a[8..72] += b[8..72] * c [8..72]
> 
> and it would work.

Yes, that’s the kind of syntax I was describing for my ancient NML language. Add modular indexing to this and you have the ideal language for finite fields, DSP, image processing (our main use case for NML), cryptography, and many others.


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