We are software limited also. AFAIK you could design a high level easy to use programming language with high performance vectorized array operations, but such l

We are software limited also. AFAIK you could design a high level easy to use programming language with high performance vectorized array operations, but such languages at least are not in wide use. By high level I mean something like Ruby where you could specify lambdas for enumerables. But the vm would take care of vectorization and/or parallelization for you.