K Language (2011)
Not sure I actually understand why K is pushed here almost daily. Is it just the esoterics? Alright, APL and K are expressive for array computation. Do many people here deal with array computation? K is also supposedly fast—not once have I seen an explanation of what makes it fast and why those techniques aren&#x27;t looted for open-source languages.<p>I&#x27;m told that the interpreter is so small that it fits in the cache. Yeah, so how much time does a non-K program normally spend loading the code? How does this free K from loading and writing <i>data</i>?<p>Is K in fact a thin layer on top of assembler (specifically SIMD and other extensions), for number crunching in the vein of shaders&#x2F;CUDA?