Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!dftsrv!jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov!jim From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: MacFortranII for A/UX Message-ID: <3943@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 16 Nov 90 17:52:45 GMT Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 30 I'm still plugging away on the comparison between NKR FORTRAN and MacFORTRANII for A/UX (NKR Research and Absoft). I've managed to cut compile times for MFII in half but doing a very simply thing... adding the "-n" flag to as. (I know, I know, this doesn't affect the compiler per se and it can be argued that this doesn't change the "compile time" :). Without as having to do this optimization, it now takes only about 1/2 the time. Code size is a little bit bigger (maybe 3-4%) and speed may be decreased a bit (when you're talking a few percent, it's hard to tell). Anyway, this (and the other) changes in the MFII f77 shell script now makes MFII I bit nicer to use and makes the toss-up between NKRF and MFII even closer. By the way, I got the latest version (V 3.2.0) of NKR FORTRAN the other day. They've added the "trig-degree" function to their library (cosd, etc) as well as adding more optimization. This makes their compiles a little slower and their code a little smaller. It still doesn't support sdb though :( -- ======================================================================= #include =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1 jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up, until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply."