30 Aug
2004
30 Aug
'04
14:17
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. -- JDL