What would programmers do if they lacked the proper operators?
For example if the programmer lacked the stream_repeat operator, would it be possible for the programmer to write the ISPC code to deal with the situation?
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@msfernan this is a part of the tradeoffs we talked about in the lecture. At the expense of being a purely functional language that may not contain all the operators we require, we allow a programmer to write the code in ISPC however they please. Of course, this is at the cost of making it unclear to a compiler, and it loses the abstraction of data processing that we enjoyed from a functional language.
In a "more proper" functional language, this operator may end up being the result of many complicated functions that we have, whereas it could have been trivial to write in ISPC or a similar language.
I would recommend watching the lecture 4 video starting at around 19 or 21 minutes in for the complete discussion we had during lecture.
What would programmers do if they lacked the proper operators?
For example if the programmer lacked the
stream_repeatoperator, would it be possible for the programmer to write the ISPC code to deal with the situation?@msfernan this is a part of the tradeoffs we talked about in the lecture. At the expense of being a purely functional language that may not contain all the operators we require, we allow a programmer to write the code in ISPC however they please. Of course, this is at the cost of making it unclear to a compiler, and it loses the abstraction of data processing that we enjoyed from a functional language.
In a "more proper" functional language, this operator may end up being the result of many complicated functions that we have, whereas it could have been trivial to write in ISPC or a similar language.
I would recommend watching the lecture 4 video starting at around 19 or 21 minutes in for the complete discussion we had during lecture.