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Karta Kooner

Core Developer

Worked at Dyalog Ltd from April 2021 to August 2025

Role Summary

Karta works as a developer on the core interpreter.

Biography

Karta graduated with a PhD in High Energy Physics, and joined Dyalog Ltd without any previous knowledge of APL. He was impressed enough to see Dyalog’s potential in computational environments, and joined as a core interpreter developer, looking to expand and improve Dyalog as an analytical tool.

APL Standards

00:00 - Introducing the speaker 00:34 - Talk APL was designed in the 1960s as an array-based programming language by Kenneth Iverson, and has evolved and added many new features over the intervening decades. It was first standardized in 1989, before...View

July 2025

PLSS 2025

Future Performance Improvements in Set Functions

At Dyalog '22, Karta presented an introduction to work that he was undertaking to improve the performance of set-related primitives (membership ∊, index-of ⍳, union ∪ and others). He now presents the results of his work and explores what can be...View

October 2023

Dyalog '23

Performance Improvements in Set Operations

Dyalog version 18.0 introduced many useful performance enhancements, including some within the set-related primitives. Karta outlines the ongoing work that is being performed to understand what the performance profile of key primitives look like (beg...View

October 2022

Dyalog '22

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