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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY)
Message-ID: <5760:Dec618:20:2290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:20:22 GMT
References: <7200@lanl.gov> <2392:Nov2902:59:0590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <72@tdatirv.UUCP>
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In article <72@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
> Except for one thing. In scientific computation typical dimensions would be
> more like 1000 by 1000 by 1000 by 1000 by 50, which requires a great deal more
> than a mere thirty pointers.

Fine. In your 50-terabyte computation, can you begrudge space for 2050
pointers so that you save 5% of your run time? I think so.

---Dan