[Vm-dev] how slower is called a named primitive over a numbered primitive?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Jun 24 00:54:51 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:45:42PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> On 23-06-2015, at 4:43 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > I never really understood why we needed all those zeros in the first place.
> > If we just keep getting rid of them, there is no limit to the potential
> > performance improvements!
> 
> Oh but  there is - as soon as we hit infinite performance everything crashes instantly.
>

I'm sure you realize that I was baiting you with that remark ;-)

I don't think that a crash would be inevitable, but I will resist the
temptation of speculating in the realm of physics and astronomy regarding
the likely outcome of a binary star with the zeros removed.

Dave
 


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