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I'm a part of this community. I assure you speed in number crunching is a huge reason this is written in F90.
by upmygreen 12y ago
I'm a part of this community. I assure you speed in number crunching is a huge reason this is written in F90.
- tankenmate 12y agoIndeed, automatic (and largely implicit) use of SIMD and OpenMP by the compiler is very very good with F90 compared to almost all other widely used languages.
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- noobermin 12y agoI'm curious (really curious, although this might sound like a troll), have you ever tried a benchmark test on this? Things like this [0] come up every so often, and make me wonder about the efficiency advantage for coding in Fortran. This is also relevant and insightful [1]. The top answer talks about Fortran's strict aliasing semantics. [0] http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-goats-lions-and-wolves.html http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-go... [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-faster-than-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-faster-...
- greglindahl 12y ago[0] is a classic example of comparing programming languages attacking a problem with different algorithms. I see that the author insults Fortran a couple of times, and I don't seen any indication that they tried to implement the better algorithm in Fortran. Did I miss something?