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Yes, Scala certainly has all the latest programming language bells and whistles, but - leaving aside the many highly tuned libraries and 60 years of compiler ex
by warmfuzzykitten 12y ago
Yes, Scala certainly has all the latest programming language bells and whistles, but - leaving aside the many highly tuned libraries and 60 years of compiler experience on every imaginable hardware configuration - it doesn't have the single attribute that keeps Fortran on top: runs numeric codes fast.
- frowaway001 12y agoA trait shared with the other languages mentioned here. It will be hard to beat Fortran, although Scala might be closer than the alternatives.
- tormeh 12y agoIt would be fun to see what Scala's performance is like with long-running simulations. Should be ideal for hotspot optimization. Isn't Java just as often used for HPC as C?