On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Filip Pizlo <fpi...@apple.com> wrote:
> > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 2:29 AM, "Pozdnyakov, Mikhail" < > mikhail.pozdnya...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > >> Why not infer ParallelArrays automatically? > > Sorry, did not get it. Could you please elaborate? > > Normal JS arrays. You use them with pure computation. Profiler notices > this. And then the same things that you have in the ParallelArrays proposal > now work except you don't need a new type. > > Compiler writers have been chasing this problem for 50 years, with (AFAIK) very limited success for languages that don't give you compile-time annotations to help you along. I'm not aware of any work on JIT compilers doing this. Why do you think we could do better? (Honest question, I'm not trying to be snarky, nor am I an expert).
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