Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!beach.csulb.edu!nic.csu.net!csun.edu!corona!swalton From: swalton@corona.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Fortrann Message-ID: <1991Jun14.234532.13623@csun.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 23:45:32 GMT References: Sender: usenet@csun.edu Organization: California State Univ., Northridge Lines: 18 In article peterm@am.dsir.govt.nz (Peter McGavin) writes: > >>How slow (fast) is it compared to Fortran 77 on a VAX? > >I've only tried the non-pro version (no 68882 support) on an A3000. It worked >for me and seemed fast, but I wasn't worried about speed at the time. It >probably doesn't do much optimisation I've run one benchmark with Absoft F77, namely LINPACK. On an A3000/25, it came in at about 200 Kflops, about the same as a 25 MHz '386 machine running under Microsoft Fortran. [This is from memory, so don't hold me to this.] I don't know offhand what a VAX 11/780 does here. The combination of f2c plus a C compiler may be somewhat faster, but is also about a factor of 10 slower in going from the source to an executable. -- Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge "Lately it occurs to me/What a long, strange trip it's been"