quadruplebond

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   by quadruplebond 9y ago

   Blas is an interface, All performant blas libraries need to written to specifically take advantage of modern hardware. Things like NetLib exists as reference implementations, they are not high performance. The point I am trying to make is
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   by quadruplebond 9y ago

   For science codes, where Fortran is still used, the most expensive pieces (think DGEMM Kernel) are largely written in architecture dependent ASM anyways so programming language doesn't have that much of an effect on the most time criti
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   by quadruplebond 9y ago

   As someone working on an Exascale project for electronic structure calculations, I have a theory about the longevity of Fortran. It's the fact that many of these codes were started years ago and the people who have the credentials and