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Subject: Re: Languages revisited. Functional language beats C for number cruncing

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 06:44:37 01/11/03

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On January 11, 2003 at 06:36:23, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>
>This is no big deal.  FFTW (fastest fourier transform in the west) is also
>written in a functional language.  (It generates C code.)
>
>As far as I am concerned, they might as well have written it in the functional
>language known as compile-time C++. ;-)
>

:)

Compile-time C++, or template meta-programming etc. have been used to make very
fast numerical libraries. So I wouldn't be surprised if whatever they did in
scheme could be done in C++.

/David



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