array-oriented code
noun phraseUK /əˈreɪ ˈɔːriəntɪd kəʊd/
US /əˈreɪ ˈɔriəntɪd koʊd/
Code that works on whole groups of things at once instead of one at a time.
She wrote array-oriented code to add ten to every number in the list in one step.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. Code written in a language like APL or J that treats whole arrays as basic values.
APL programmers love array-oriented code because a single line can transform a whole matrix.
3. A style of coding that avoids explicit loops by applying functions to entire collections.
Switching to array-oriented code removed all the for-loops from his data pipeline.
4. Code optimized so operations run across many data elements in parallel.
The GPU speedup came from rewriting the simulation as array-oriented code.