Re: LW compiler optimizations

"Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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> On 14 Jan 2025, at 12:24, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> And so, I forgot to mention the other use case - Neural Networks, alongside cryptography, DSP, and others. MAC is so useful in so many areas. Today’s languages really ought to be making overt allowances for it.

Can sign under each word in that sentence. Even if we ignore the DSP stuff as being somewhat niche, the rise of neural nets alone is a clear pointer where the needs of the language users to come are going to placed.

It is somewhat surprising that this hasn’t been a thing for at least a decade, or even two, ever since MMX was introduced into Pentium processor in I forget which year. 

Was it 1934?



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