I am particularly interested in speed on a Cray using vectorization and
parallelization
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From: "Tim Prince" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: Fortran/C Speed
> At 06:21 AM 7/13/2004, Naomi Greenberg wrote:
>
> >Could anyone refer me to a fairly current benchmark study comparing C
with
> >Fortran in terms of speed for highly computational code? I am trying to
> >justify not converting legacy Fortran code to C code, and my customer is
> >of the opinion that Fortran codes will not be maintainable in the future
> >since engineers are no longer being trained in it. I need actual studies
> >to cite in response to this.
> >Thank you!
> >Naomi Greenberg
>
> This is quite difficult to answer. C is more competitive with Fortran on
> certain platforms than others.
>
> Leaving out the increasing usage of C++, as you must, it shouldn't be
> difficult to make a case that there is as much training and usage of
> Fortran as of C. It takes a great deal of additional work to make C
> competitive with Fortran, where it can be done. Normally, it involves
> non-standard combinations of C and C++, taking advantage of C features
> which may be supported only on certain platforms.
>
>
>
> Tim Prince
>
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