May 5, 2014 · The word scalar derives from the Latin word scalaris, an adjectival form of scala (Latin for "ladder"). The English word "scale" also comes from scala. Source. A Scalar is a …

Jul 11, 2019 · The terms 'scalar type' or 'scalar field' are usually used to contrast them with compound types/fields. A compound type is easiest to define and it is a type that contains …

Sep 5, 2017 · @KilianFoth: I don't think this applies here. "Composite design pattern" would require to wrap the passed parameter in an additional class hierarchy, but additional wrappers …

Aug 6, 2017 · Take a scalar, say 0 or null and force it to be the value of every key in the map: {"a": 0, "b": 0} This way, under standard comparison tools, the objects are equal, even if the key …

Using SIMD instructions (confusingly, this is also called "vectorization" but in a different sense than in the text quotes in the question). In essence, instead of 4 or 8 or so scalar arithmetic …

Mar 8, 2017 · Going with an empty string is a definitive no. Empty string still is a value, it is just empty. No value should be indicated using a construct which represents nothing, null.

Mar 15, 2012 · For example, in languages like C and C++, you have a number of built-in scalar types - int, float, double, char, etc. These are "primitive" in the sense that they cannot be …

Jun 8, 2017 · The syntax 3 of protobuf made all the fields optional dropping the keywords required and optional from previous proto2 syntax. Reading some comments from developers it seems …

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The compiler may apply scalar replacement of aggregates (SRA, SRoA), which means the local array (which is used in elementwise single assignment way) approach and the local variables …