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Re:Julia 1.0 by kazinator on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:22PM (#17730229)
Still, the implementation has to internally do ABC(z - 1) + AB(y - 1) + A(x - 1), compensating for the pointless bias at every dimension.

It's just a wanton complication, like insisting on Roman numerals instead of a radix enumeration.

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Re:Julia 1.0 by stellalo on Friday August 10, 2018 @05:21AM (#17731810)
Well, I’d say the analogy with Arabic vs Roman numerals is a bit of a stretch. Seriously, it is just a matter of shifting by one, humanity has much bigger problems to focus on!
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Re:Julia 1.0 by pjmlp on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:13AM (#17730853)
The implementation already has to do lots of internal stuff to map high level language abstractions to actual real hardware capabilities, index calculations is just another one.
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