On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 1:29 PM Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a thought. The management of numbered locales is not very efficient. A > while back I created several thousand locales as an object test. I went to > delete all of them and it took forever.
Right. My understanding was that J's locales were designed to roughly correspond with intel's "Structure of Arrays" abstraction. As I understand it, Ken Iverson did not see much use for the popular but inefficient abstractions which would roughly correspond with intel's "Array of Structures" abstraction (with "objects being similar to structures, but heavier). In other words, for code where execution time is a bottleneck, the purpose of J's locales should be thought of as being more analogous (for example) to the purpose of Java's namespaces than the purpose of Java's object system. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
