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FORTRAN, the OG of scientific languages, is not slow. In fact, that's why it's still used to this day.
by sidpatil 5y ago
FORTRAN, the OG of scientific languages, is not slow. In fact, that's why it's still used to this day.
- antoinealb 5y agoThat's true, i was more thinking of scientific interpreted languages, a la R, Mathematica, matlab
- dralley 5y agoIn fact it may well be the fastest language - although it's hard to compete with the sheer number of man hours spent on C/C++ compilers.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agowhile it isn't inherently slow, all the open source compilers are missing a lot of modern improvements. The default libm in particular is often a few times slower than those provided by Julia.
- teleforce 5y agoIt is not the compiler per se, it is mostly down to the design of the language itself. D language based numerical library has already beaten popular Fortran based numerical library OpenBLAS/Lapack for several years now [1]. [1]Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen: http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/glas-gemm-benchmark.html http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...