- What is a primitive?
- A command that will process an arbitrarily large amount
of data in an efficient manner.
- What is an intrinsic?
- An intrinsic is a run-to-completion command. It is usually
short-lived and does not do any data processing or graphics.
- What types of primitives/intrinsics exist?
- Standard Java Primitives
- A data processing primitive written in Java.
- Graphical Primitives
- A graphical primitive written in Java.
- Host Primitives
- Legacy X-Midas primitives written in Fortran but
executed from Java using the XBC option tree.
- Intrinsics
- An intrinsic written in Java.