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From: philw@pharma.UUCP (Philip Michael Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: FORTRAN on the Amiga
Message-ID: <philw.0043@pharma.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 91 02:36:54 GMT
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Greetings,

I was very interested in a news article about a PD FORTRAN-to-C converter,
F2C.  As I can't afford #500 for a 030 Fortran compiler I amy very keen to
get hold of a copy of this F2C.  I haven't seen it around anywhere and was
wondering where I can get it from. Any help, someone, please !

For those lucky ones who run AC/Fortran, does equivalent software run quicker
in FORTRAN on the Amiga than it does in C.  I have done some extensive tests
on Unix workstations (Apollo, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard and E&S) and
find that FORTRAN code runs faster than the same code ported to C.  This may
not hold for C code ported to FORTRAN, but that's another story.  A 2000 with
a 25MHz 68030 (A2630) runs small code faster than an 8MB 33MHz Apollo DN4500
Unix workstation (again 68030 based).  BUT, the same code running in FORTRAN
runs twice as fast on the 4500.  Perhaps we should stop this shift to 'C',
the trendy language, for all our programming and us FORTRAN for the tasking
stuff.

Are there other Amiga FORTRAN compilers other than Absofts ?

Any help with F2C greatly appreciated.
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    Phil Williams                        cbmuk!cbmuka!pharma!philw
    Dept Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Univeristy of Nottingham             JANET: paxpw@uk.ac.nott.vax
    Nottingham NG7 2RD
    UK