Re: RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Soeller
Damian Conway wrote: > You can't, in serial implementation. But on a parallel architecture > or, better still, on a quantum device, you can run all the computations > in parallel. I see that. PDL has that as an experimental feature on any ufunc (in fact on any function that has a signature). It

Re: RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions

2000-09-14 Thread Damian Conway
> > Do any() and all() have some magic around how they are > > implemented in von Neumann computers that make them faster than > > standard CS searching techniques? > > I'm probably naive here but shortcuts in a non-parallelized (classical) > implementation rely on the usual sho

Re: RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Soeller
Jeremy Howard wrote: > Do any() and all() have some magic around how they are implemented in von > Neumann computers that make them faster than standard CS searching > techniques? I'm probably naive here but shortcuts in a non-parallelized (classical) implementation rely on the usual shortcircui

RFC 169 (v2) Proposed syntax for matrix element access and slicing.

2000-09-14 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Proposed syntax for matrix element access and slicing. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29 August 2000 Last Modified: 14 September 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions

2000-09-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Perl6 RFC Librarian (aka Damian Conway) wrote: > This RFC (seriously) proposes Perl 6 provide C and C operators, > and, thereby, conjunctive and disjunctive superpositional types. > Great to see this RFC'd--this will makes lots of data crunching code _way_ easier. Now, I haven't quite finished re

RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions

2000-09-14 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Data: Superpositions =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14 September 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 225 Version: 1 Status: Developing =head1 ABSTRA