Oops, I should have remembered to check - I was quite impressed when avx 
support first appeared and should have realized that the slowdown I experienced 
was exactly that.  Thanks for the memory nudge!

- joey

> On 2020May 14, at 16:06, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible you are comparing 901avx2 with 902 (nonavx)?
> 
> I have not run your test yet on a mac, but on linux, I find that 902avx2 is
> nearly 3 times faster than 902(nonavx).
> 
> If you didn't do the final install steps, then you would not have upgraded
> JE from the base version to the avx2 version.
> 
> What is 9!:14'' on your slow 902 system?
> 
> If it says j902, then you should upgrade. I think the steps are:
>   load'pacman'
>   'upgrade'jpkg'jengine'
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:32 PM Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Installed under OS X 10.14.6 easily - but I'm puzzled why "my" benchmark
>> 
>>   timex '%. 1000 1000 ?@$ 0'
>> 
>> takes more than twice as much cpu compared to j901...  (space used is
>> identical)
>> 
>>> On 2020May 14, at 14:27, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This beta has a few language changes:
>>> 
>>> * Fold (u F:. v) has been redefined to execute v first, then, u
>>> 
>>> * u0`u1`...@v now has infinite rank.  v is executed first to decide the
>> cell-rank, and which verb is to be executed for each cell; then the u verbs
>> are executed, either one cell at a time or in one call to each verb, to
>> execute on a list of cells at once. Therefore, each u verb needs to be able
>> to handle single cell or a list of input cells.
>>> 
>>> * semiduals are supported at last: x u&.:(v`a:) y applies v only to x,
>> and x u&.:(a:`v) y applies v only to y.
>>> 
>>> Henry Rich
>>> 
>>> On 5/14/2020 3:49 PM, Eric Iverson wrote:
>>>> The first 902 beta release is available for windows/macos/linux.
>>>> 
>>>> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J902
>>>> 
>>>> Availability of new releases will be announced here.
>>>> 
>>>> Questions, problems, etc should be addressed to the beta forum.
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