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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: Fortran/Latex summary (!!)
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Date: 20 Oct 90 07:23:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: chinch@theory.tn.cornell.edu's message of 18 Oct 90 21:42:39 GMT


I should have responded earlier.

I've been using the 'F2C' package available from research.att.com, and
then running the results through the C compiler on my DS3100. It's
cheaper the DEC fortran, and seemed to barf less often.  I've had
several programs in which 1.31 fortran died, but f2c -> cc1.31 didn't.
In the cases where f2c -> cc1.31 *did* die, running it through 'gcc'
gave a correct run, albeit 15% slower.

For programs that f77 *did* accept, I didn't see any performance
difference between f77 and f2c. MIPS made a good C compiler.

As for latex, it's out-of-the-box.