Virtual Processors

One way to think about DAPPLE collections (vectors and matrices) is as a set of data elements. Another way to think of them is as a set of data elements, each of which has a virtual processor for manipulating that element. Thus, for elementwise operations like

intVector A(N), B(N), C(N); ... A = B + C; one can imagine the virtual processor at position 3 adding element 3 of B to element 3 of C and then assigning the result to element 3 of A.