May 6, 2014 · The term "scalar" comes from linear algebra, where it is used to differentiate a single number from a vector or matrix. The meaning in computing is similar. It distinguishes a …

Mar 15, 2012 · It kind of depends on the language. 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 …

Nov 2, 2020 · Microsoft’s Scalar apparently does some repacking in the background, but that’s only documented somewhat vaguely and in the context of fetch and checkout, so I’m not …

May 12, 2017 · Well, every scalar type in C, pointer, boolean (since C99), number (floating-point or not) and enumeration (due to direct mapping to numbers) has a "natural" falsey value, so …

Aug 6, 2017 · JSON supports the following data structures (Java equivalents): Scalar, Array/List, and Map. A Set is not supported out-of-the-box in JSON. I thought about several ways to …

Mar 8, 2017 · When transferring object through an API, as in schemaless JSON format, what is the ideal way to return non-existent string property? I know that there are different ways of …

When, why, and how would it be possible to gain performance improvements in software by expressing calculations as matrix multiplications? If I were to calculate the matrix multiplication …

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 …

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 …

Feb 27, 2014 · I am currently developing a math-physics program and I need to calculate if two vectors overlap one another, the one is vertical and the other is horizontral. Is there any fast …