bearophile wrote:
Johan Granberg:
I think it is an
acceptable tradeof that the people that need optimal speed write there code
in a more uncompressed formm using manual loops or wathewer. Then the cases
not on the criitical path of the program can be written more compactly
using a slightly slower but much faster to write style.
In this specific case the compiler must become smarter and able to optimize
away the performance loss. Otherwise it's a failed language and a failed
compiler.
Exactly. Array operations must be optimally fast (faster than a manual
loop, in general), or else refuse to compile. They are not syntax sugar.
