On side note, it would be beneficial to have selection in standard library.
This would cover median, min and max cases.
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=122

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 07:36 Isiah Meadows <[email protected] wrote:

> No, I'm referring to how it'd be implemented. JS implementations might
> choose to leverage native vector CPU instructions in their code gen to
> speed them up by a factor of 1.5-3.
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:51 PM Gbadebo Bello <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > >An advantage to having this an internal primitive is you can use vector
> instructions to check 4-8 values in parallel and then end with a final step
> of finding the max/min value of the vector. (integers can just use bit
> hacks, float max/min has hardware acceleration).
> >
> >
> > I don't quite understand, does javascript now support vectorised
> operations on the client side or an external library would be needed for
> this?
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 03:26 Gbadebo Bello <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, you are right. The `apply` method might not be the
> best(Performance wise).
> >>
> >> @T.J. Crowder. Wow, my mind didn't go to `reduce` at all, I don't have
> any issues with it, in fact I feel it would perform better than `apply`
> >
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