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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.
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