Sorta forgot about this thread, but hopefully ou see this. K is super-great at vector operations; element-wise addition between two lists of equal length, for

Sorta forgot about this thread, but hopefully ou see this. K is super-great at vector operations; element-wise addition between two lists of equal length, for example; more powerfully, mapping lists to functions. The DB stuff we were doing were columnar databases, so it was incredibly fast at doing data analysis and correlations. Not so fast at adding single rows, but if you wanted to take a list of transactions and compare things day-over-day, or do sophisticated statistical operations, you simply had to write a line or two, and watch it take multiple million-element lists and give you an answer in milliseconds. I'm still pretty convinced it was voodoo magic. When I used it, there was a pretty hefty license fee, but there's a trial version which limits the amount of memory it will use, but can still do quite a bit to give you a sense of the speed (as long as you're doing it right). Remember, no stinkin' loops!