At 5:26 PM -0700 4/13/02, Larry Wall wrote: >Well, Perl 5 doesn't really support compact arrays of known size, and >those are the only kind that are easy to think about when it comes to >vectorization.
Actually, I can think of other possibilities. For instance, aren't some string operations (e.g., comparing two strings) vectorizable? But your overall point seems valid. Anyway, I'm hoping that quite a lot of this stuff shows up in Perl 6; my take is that the things that Perl is slow at are the things that I specify myself (e.g., complicated control structures and code); when it can simply go off and do something (e.g., I/O), it runs as fast as the C code that implements the thing it's doing. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection
