On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:21 PM, E.D.G. <edgrs...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The point is, when people want to make some computer program available > for use by others around the world they might want to circulate a version of > their program that has such a simple format that anyone can understand it. > And for actual use they can generate parallel versions that have more > efficient code that people who are working with that language can > understand.
Sounds to me like something out of cryptography. You have a "reference implementation" that's slow, readable, and straight-forward, and then you have "optimized implementations" that are actually fast enough to use - but if any time you want to know if you're producing the right output, you just compare against the reference implementation. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
