[Jprogramming] Am I understanding m/y ?

[Henry Rich]

That would be a potential improvement; but there are details - like what 
happens if there is an overflow during the scan.

In any case, I was looking for code that's fast right now.

Henry Rich

On 2/22/2016 5:30 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> The problem with the existing implementation is that there's no
> efficient way to use it in a scan.
>
> That said, Henry's point about constant time overhead might be relevant.
>
> That said, I don't think the implementation would need to do the full
> verb overhead for primitive scalar verbs (where we've already got
> tables of their underlying mechanisms for each numeric type).
>