A relevant quote, the final sentence in *Notation as a Tool of Thought <http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm>*:
Finally, overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation. On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 8:04 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that's a problem. You have to have some datasets that you consider > typical. I usually try on random, ascending/descending, and somewhat > repeated data. > > In this case, where the performance depends on the instruction mix in > user code, I just guess based on the J code I have written. > > Henry Rich > > On 7/29/2019 10:33 AM, Raul Miller wrote: > > Which reminds me of an interesting question: > > > > How do you adequately benchmark this kind of optimization? > > > > Thanks, > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
