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_why C++ is becoming the language of choice in the HPC world._ And yet, the HPC world looks for a new language: http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Conferences/SOS10/pres
by groby_b 17y ago
_why C++ is becoming the language of choice in the HPC world._
And yet, the HPC world looks for a new language: http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Conferences/SOS10/presentations/Tuesday/Snir.pdf http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Conferences/SOS10/presentations/Tue...
And a lot of the HPC world still writes FORTRAN or C. (I.e. BLAS, LAPACK, et.al.)
But then again, I don't spend that much time in the true HPC world. Maybe I'm missing a trend there. But from the outside, it looks like C++ is not quite what people wanted.
- timr 17y agoThe HPC world writes a lot of code in FORTRAN because of the library support, and the fact that there's a ton of legacy FORTRAN code that's genuinely hard to rewrite. There isn't much C work going on; the few C libraries that exist are usually wrappers around FORTRAN code.