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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran to C Translator Reviewed
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.225129.5160@siia.mv.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 22:51:29 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.143911.27501@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <KHB.90Jun26114740@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
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In <KHB.90Jun26114740@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:


>>In Digital Review (June 18, 1990) there is a review of Promula.Fortran, a
>>Fortran to C source code translator on pages 29 - 31.

>An important thing to note is that the reviewer obserseved that the
>runtimes of the translated code was about .6 the original fortran times.
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Isn't this better?!-------------------------+
What is the real story?

>The reviewer tracked down some of the most painful slowdowns and
>blames them on the VAX C compiler ... not on C features. 

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]