Re: Loop jamming!?

Mike Kent <mkent@acm.org>
7 Aug 1997 15:18:50 -0400

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From: Mike Kent <mkent@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Aug 1997 15:18:50 -0400
Organization: Entropy Mongers PLC
References: 97-07-089 97-07-102 97-07-108 97-07-118 97-07-132
Keywords: optimize, APL, Fortran

Jan Vorbrueggen wrote:
...
> Well, the the whole point of using f90's array operations is lost,
> isn't it? But I'm sure the APL/J crowd will point out to you that
> they did this type of optimization oh, three decades ago.


More like one decade; the IBM APL2 product did some loop fusion, on
mainframes with the Vector Facility. There was an IBM TR on the
speedups attributable to the VF; I think Harlan Crowder was one of
the authors.


// m
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