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From: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: what is j?
Message-ID: <1991May20.122605.16936@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Reply-To: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Organization: Iverson Software Inc.
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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 12:26:05 GMT

Robert Bernecky writes:

>The point I want to make is that I think of compiled code as being
>something that runs about the same speed as the same algorithm coded
>in C, the above statement notwithstanding. Ten or a hundred times
>slower doesn't count.

Bob, you should try timing  nub0 =. ~.  against  nub1 =. #~ i.@# = i.~
The former, being primitive, is coded in C; the latter is an example
of a "compiled" tacit definition.

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