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From: bcphyagi@csunb.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Fortran 77
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Date: 22 Feb 91 21:21:48 GMT
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In article <901@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:

>As far as I know there is also a commercial compiler made by Absoft,
>named AC/Fortran. (Yes, the guys who also did AC/Basic.) Don't know
>whether it's still available, but got some good critics in papers,

Yes, it is still available, but it is still at the same revision (V2.3) that
it was two years ago.  We are all hoping for an upgrade to something similar
to their Mac product, which is nearly a Fortran-90 compiler.

There is a simple reason to prefer AC/Fortran to f2c (the PD Fortran-to-C
translator): speed.  The LINPACK benchmark on an A3000 takes about 15 seconds
to compile to a runnable program with AC/Fortran;  the combination of f2c
and Manx C compile and link is more like 90 seconds.
--
Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
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