stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers) (09/23/85)
you ought to check out F77L by Lahey Computer Systems
31244 Palos Verdes West
Suite 243
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274
(213) 541-1200
they claim to have been serving the FORTRAN community since l969,
which is certainly more than Microsoft can say!
F77L is a full implementation of the F77 standard and beats
the IBM Professional FORTRAN; I don't know whether it has
all you want, but if they keep being so responsive to my
demands for features that I need in a FORTRAN compiler
I may have to finally buy it!
steve
tektronix!stever
p.s. i own Microsoft FORTRAN 3.3
p.p.s. i am working on some benchmarks dealing with
the difference in handling small and large arrays for
MS 3.3 and Lahey
p.p.p.s. below are some benchmark times for a 1700 line
program
IBM IBM Lahey
2.0 P77 F77L
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Compile 20:07 21:44 5:35
Execute 3:32 2:04 2:03
note: times courtesy of Wayne Garber, coordinator for the
FORTRAN SIG of the Portland IBM-PC Club