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PS: That FORTRAN is fast is over stated IMHO. From my point of view, it's understated, and should be given much more credit than it gets. intel has done a lot
by Annatar 10y ago
PS: That FORTRAN is fast is over stated IMHO.
From my point of view, it's understated, and should be given much more credit than it gets. intel has done a lot of work to make their ifort compiler leverage their latest instruction sets like AVX2, resulting in even bigger speedups, and PGI has done absolutely amazing work of writing a compiler which can ingest unmodified Fortran code and compile it to run on NVidia GPU's. It's nothing short of mind blowing to me and gets way too little mention. Modern Fortran is a really nice language and all this bashing of it because it's not trendy is completely unfounded. Just ask intel.
- dagw 10y agoI believe that one of Fortran's biggest problem is that if you want to get all the advantages that modern Fortran has to offer you have to use closed source commercial tools. If the open source tools had been closer to what PGI and Intel offers in terms of features and performance I don't doubt that Fortran would be more popular.
- hzhou321 10y agoSeems I have not been kept up :)