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"What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?" Some versions of Fortran are optimised at compiler level for hardware, hence question #2 is moot. [0] Not
by bootload 10y ago
"What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?"
Some versions of Fortran are optimised at compiler level for hardware, hence question #2 is moot. [0] Note the level of optimisation on linux [1] required to speed the code up.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Fortran_Compiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Fortran_Compiler
[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-intel-compilers-for-linux-with-ubuntu https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-intel-compil...
- daveguy 10y agoI don't think giving an answer to a question makes that question moot.
- bootload 10y ago"What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C" What I mean is the reason C isn't faster is because of the hardware support at processor level and extra library support for example in IFort. Is writing/re-writing a problem in another language when there is an existing well documented body of code is premature optimisation?
- lgessler 10y agoI think what they meant was that the specific answer made the question uninteresting.
- Sean1708 10y agoDoesn't ICC do exactly the same thing though? I'm fairly sure you still get the performance disparity.