rl9

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   by rl9 6y ago

   I had a similar upbringing, but in Canada. A lot of this rings true. Our family doesn't farm anymore,but for different reasons. Still, the pressure to go big or go home exists north of the border, too. I think Adam Smith nailed it ba
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   by rl9 12y ago

   One of many possible reasons is the way arrays are stored. In a matrix representation, should the memory be laid out one row at a time or one column at a time? It's mostly an arbitrary decision, but different languages have made diff
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   by rl9 12y ago

   It's not just learnability. In some cases, Fortran can be considered to be faster than C since it can apply something like -fno-strict-alisasing by default. Not to mention that most compilers have OpenMP suport built-in. Also, there&