chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (01/19/87)
>In article <748@imagen.UUCP> geof@imagen.UUCP writes: >>... On Unix, you can easily construct a fortran code beautifier >>with a simple shell command. Just use: >> % rm *.f77 >>:-) In article <251@skatter.UUCP> kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo) writes: >I would gladly use this shell command! We found that the new Ultrix FORTRAN >is at least 3-4 times faster than f77, even though a few bugs have been found >in fort. Does that mean it *compiles* 3-4 times faster, or that the code *runs* 3-4 times faster after having been compiled? And what code? The 4.2BSD f77 compiler was pretty bad; the 4.3 compiler is much more correct, and the runtime libraries, now written in Vax assembly, are much faster, but I would be greatly surprised to find that even the ported VMS compiler could beat even the old 4.2 f77 by a factor of four, except on carefully selected benchmarks. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) UUCP: seismo!mimsy!chris ARPA/CSNet: chris@mimsy.umd.edu