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Re: [suse-programming-e] Is SuSE 64 bit ?
- From: Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:00:07 +0200
- Message-id: <200408301800.07999.sh@xxxxxxx>
On Monday 30 August 2004 16:17, John Lamb wrote:
> > Just curious: Did you do any hard benchmarking to support that supposed
> > performance advantage of Fortran compared to C used in a similar way -
> > i.e. not doing any fancy stuff, just number crunching?
> >
> > Any pointers, anybody?
>
> A reasonable starting point would be
> http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/software/CompCPP_F90SciOOP.html
> since it's mainly in the realms of Computational Maths/Physics/Chemistry
> that FORTRAN remains important.
OK, thanks, that's a very informative site.
But according to the charts there, there is hardly any difference in
performance, right? Sometimes even C/C++ appears to be faster.
Or am I reading those charts wrong?
CU
--
Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx> Penguin by conviction.
YaST2 Development
SuSE Linux AG
Nuernberg, Germany
> > Just curious: Did you do any hard benchmarking to support that supposed
> > performance advantage of Fortran compared to C used in a similar way -
> > i.e. not doing any fancy stuff, just number crunching?
> >
> > Any pointers, anybody?
>
> A reasonable starting point would be
> http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/software/CompCPP_F90SciOOP.html
> since it's mainly in the realms of Computational Maths/Physics/Chemistry
> that FORTRAN remains important.
OK, thanks, that's a very informative site.
But according to the charts there, there is hardly any difference in
performance, right? Sometimes even C/C++ appears to be faster.
Or am I reading those charts wrong?
CU
--
Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx> Penguin by conviction.
YaST2 Development
SuSE Linux AG
Nuernberg, Germany
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