Scalar in a sentence as a noun

> If you as a newbie create a custom function for a > scalar, there's good chance it will work for vectors or > n-matrices automatically.

Color is not a scalar, it's a vector, and simply varying hue doesn't map out well to the human perception of lightness or intensity.

]Is this architecture going to face the same issue?Edit: I watching the video and heard that "nearly all of what the super scalar is doing is [not calculating]".

Scalar in a sentence as an adjective

Julia seems to likewise default to being mostly scalar-oriented, and only makes it less painful by having efficient JIT, but still lacks the expressiveness advantage.

In those languages, direct scalar code is slow, and vectorization is about expressing the computation in a form that will call out to fast C operations, but the C still pays a price to allocate intermediates.

Scalar definitions

noun

a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components

adjective

of or relating to a musical scale; "he played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar"

adjective

of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude; "scalar quantity"