"Most"? Do they really? I have never seen the operation you describe in message 1 the way you have it written. Yes perhaps Matlab does, but I really doubt that is common.
@jfalesi wrote:
This is why I try to use primitives instead of loops - I don't want to force LabVIEW explicitly iterate if it's going to iterate behind the scenes in a more efficient manner.
Don't worry about that. If LabVIEW has a primitive that needs to do looping behind the scenes to get a result, it is usually pretty obvious. (Think search 1D array, it will loop through the array to find the first match.)
