Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (84 mails)

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

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > I don't suppose there's any way I could persuade you to try using C++ 
> > or C instead of FORTRAN (I gave up FORTRAN in 1988 and haven't looked 
> > back). If you're calling C functions, then I guess you just look for 
> > the declarations in an include directory and use the program above 
> > (compile it gcc name.c and run it ./a.out) to identify the actual sizes.
>
> FORTRAN is still as much as 75% faster than C/C++ with good compilers 
> (SGI & Intel under various linuces, including SuSE), I have seen that 
> without fail. If you are doing runs which take days to complete, the 
> difference definitely counts.

I guess you don't do C/C++ then. Could I interest you in java or python?


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JDL