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"Fortran is faster than C++" Whats your usecase? It seems it is faster for some, but a lot slower in others: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/co

• coliveira 9y ago
  When people say that FORTRAN is faster than C++ it is obviously for numerical code, since general systems code is very hard to do in FORTRAN. Many people will complain that C++ can be faster than FORTRAN, however the problem is that you need to know a lot of C++ or have access to the right libraries to write competitive numeric code. In FORTRAN you can do that out of the box.
  • eesmith 9y ago
    Moreover, the article mentions this point, references the benchmarks game, and says "However, the two benchmarks where Fortran wins (n-body simulation and calculation of spectra) are the most physics-y".
    • igouy 9y ago
      >> where Fortran wins << spectral-norm 1.99s Fortran Intel 1.99s C++ g++ URL provided @quickben
      • eesmith 9y ago
        And the full text in the article is: "However, the two benchmarks where Fortran wins (n-body simulation and calculation of spectra) are the most physics-y. The results vary somewhat depending on whether one compares a single core or quad core machine with Fortran lagging a bit more behind C++ on the quad core." Though I don't see how the single core version is measured. As far as I can tell, the spectra calculations are always using 4 CPUs while the n-body is always using 1 CPU.
        • igouy 9y ago
          And the article was "Posted on July 16, 2015". Back-then a second set of measurements were shown with the programs forced to run on one-core, using set-affinity.
          • eesmith 9y ago
            Ahh, I missed the 2015 part. Thanks!