Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-26 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JW" == John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JW> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Larry Wall wrote: >> Sorry, I was just copying the designers of supercomputers in my >> terminology. So you can really blame Seymour Cray for misappropriating >> the term. On a Cray, "vector processing" is j

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-26 Thread John Williams
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > Sorry, I was just copying the designers of supercomputers in my > terminology. So you can really blame Seymour Cray for misappropriating > the term. On a Cray, "vector processing" is just operations applied > in parallel to two one-dimensional lists. Unfo