Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>> In every other programming language I know about with componentwise
>> operations, the word "array" is used. "vector" is something you Coder
>> People try to force down on us Numericals :-)
>>
>> (I know that the word is used like this in CS circles, but I prefer only
>> using the word in contexts where the meaning is crystal clear (as in
>> "vectorized operations") myself.)
>
> Ah, so all you really want is a SIMD data type, right?
... which would then also support parallel operations as in
some_int_array *= 2
to multiply all entries by two, and
some_float_array = math.sqrt(some_int_array)
to take the square-root of all entries in parallel?
Stefan
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