Re: Ops Review

2009-01-20 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > chromatic wrote: >> On Monday 19 January 2009 14:13:22 Bob Rogers wrote: >> >>> Do you think that would be fast enough? The usual way for dynamic >>> languages to get fast compiled numeric code is to bind variables to >>> hardware typ

Re: Ops Review

2009-01-20 Thread Jonathan Worthington
chromatic wrote: On Monday 19 January 2009 14:13:22 Bob Rogers wrote: Do you think that would be fast enough? The usual way for dynamic languages to get fast compiled numeric code is to bind variables to hardware types at compile time, and then inline numeric operations in order to use that

Re: Ops Review

2009-01-20 Thread chromatic
On Monday 19 January 2009 14:13:22 Bob Rogers wrote: >On Monday 19 January 2009 13:41:21 Bob Rogers wrote: >>    Math ops: >>   - ceil/floor >>   - transcendental ops >>   - gcd/lcm/fact >> >> What are you suggesting as replacements?  Or (with