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| 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.