Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (84 mails)

[John Lamb <J.D.Lamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:07, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
> > By the by, I do do some C & (frankly) like it. Almost all new stuff I
> > write is, in fact, in C (no good w/ C++ yet ....), unless there are
> > definite speed requirements, whence I go to FORTRAN.
>
> 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.

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JDL