Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: FORTRAN on the Amiga Message-ID: <1991Mar4.182803.2440@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 4 Mar 91 18:28:03 GMT References: <2412@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 60 In article <2412@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes: >In article , philw@pharma.UUCP (Philip Michael >Williams) writes: >[stuff deleted] >> 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). My A2000 can compile 'C' source code faster than my SUN 3/160M can. Of course, the SUN has its hands full. The Amiga has a number of background tasks going as well, but nothing like the SUN. USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND root 4673 46.9 5.0 96 360 ? R < 10:05 6:21 jplmrretr -a ... root 4684 30.8 5.9 160 424 p3 R 10:14 0:00 ps -ugax root 4685 15.4 3.5 48 248 p3 S 10:14 0:00 more jdickson 1388 6.0 5.9 288 424 p3 S Mar 1 0:41 shelltool -Wp 0 326 .. root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Feb 28 0:00 pagedaemon root 91 0.0 0.0 88 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:00 rpc.lockd jdickson 1377 0.0 0.0 80 0 co IW Mar 1 0:02 -csh (csh) root 1 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:03 /sbin/init - jaw 4454 0.0 0.0 80 0 p0 IW 08:16 0:02 -csh (csh) root 52 0.0 0.0 80 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:19 portmap root 65 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I Feb 28 0:00 (biod) root 66 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I Feb 28 0:00 (biod) root 55 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:00 keyserv root 77 0.0 0.0 64 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:15 syslogd root 61 0.0 1.6 48 112 ? S Feb 28 1:15 in.routed root 105 0.0 0.0 64 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:07 cron root 64 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I Feb 28 0:00 (biod) root 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Feb 28 0:05 swapper root 67 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I Feb 28 0:00 (biod) root 113 0.0 0.0 72 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:00 /usr/lib/lpd jdickson 1389 0.0 0.0 64 0 p3 IW Mar 1 0:00 -bin/csh (csh) jdickson 1342 0.0 0.0 96 0 ? IW Mar 1 0:06 selection_svc jdickson 1381 0.0 0.0 104 0 co IW Mar 1 0:46 Mail -N -B -f /tmp/MT... dickson 1385 0.0 0.0 64 0 p1 IW Mar 1 0:00 -bin/csh (csh) root 85 0.0 0.0 128 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:07 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd jdickson 1379 0.0 0.0 264 0 co IW Mar 1 0:03 suntools -b 0 0 0 -f jdickson 1387 0.0 0.0 64 0 p2 IW Mar 1 0:00 -bin/csh (csh) jdickson 1384 0.0 0.0 296 0 p1 IW Mar 1 0:05 cmdtool -Wp 542 0 -Ws root 102 0.0 0.0 24 16 ? IW Feb 28 17:31 update jdickson 1386 0.0 0.0 288 0 p2 IW Mar 1 2:00 shelltool -Wp 502 99 jdickson 1380 0.0 13.0 520 928 co S Mar 1 2:15 mailtool -i 5 -Wp 144 jdickson 4491 0.0 0.8 32 56 p2 S 08:55 0:08 telnet 128.149.4.11 jdickson 1388 0.0 6.8 288 488 p3 S Mar 1 0:43 shelltool -Wp 0 326 -Ws root 4453 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW 08:16 0:01 in.rlogind root 110 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW Feb 28 0:09 inetd jaw 4469 0.0 2.3 56 168 p0 S 08:29 0:00 tail -f jplmrlog root 4680 0.0 2.7 64 192 p3 S 10:13 0:00 -u (csh) I apologize for tying up bandwidth, but I justed wanted to stress the point that you cannot compare apples and oranges. Jeff