Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!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: <1991Mar4.191533.3300@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 4 Mar 91 19:15:33 GMT References: <2412@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 26 In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: >>In article <2412@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes: >[...] >> 2) Does anyone know why a Fortran compiler might produce faster execut- >> ables than C (asside from the obvious 'because its better at that >> job'). Is it because of the design of the language or the compiler >> or ... > >Bingo! The design of the language makes it quite easy to compile. It doesn't >place as many demands on the machine as C does. "IT" is you. How much of a strain is put on the machine depends on your coding techniques. "How are some programs so damm small" was all about this. For example, FORTRAN >subprogram arguments are passed by reference, rather than by value. ...And pointers to objects in 'C'. How are they passed? >>Andy Nagy (ptoper@asterix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca) >-- >ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu >{chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander) Jeff