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I see. How would that work? Can you give me an example of a routine that would, for example, add arrays of long integers and could handle the 3 cases that I mentioned? Would it also handle arrays of bytes? arrays of words? arrays of reals? Would I need to repeat the same for multiplication? for xor? for string concatenation? for modular arithmetic? for 96-bit arithmetic? for quaternions? for division rings?

A general vector facility would be a great work saver, even if it did nothing regarding parallel execution.

In a message dated 8/6/2010 3:16:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Contestcen@aol.com wrote:

Except that you have to code every single case separately, 2x6, 3x10, 4x4x4, etc. You need to write a separate routine for every shape of

array you

want to use.

Or you could use dynamic arrays instead of static ones. Then you can write only one case.