Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!cronkite!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: F90 compiler from NAG Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 14:24:26 GMT References: <1991Jun21.214012.5405@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 21 In-reply-to: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca's message of 21 Jun 91 21:40:12 GMT In article <1991Jun21.214012.5405@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes: process; at best that makes the F90 thing a preprocessor for C. That being the case, how will it communicate to the C compiler the optimizations which are uniquely available because of the peculiarities of F90? (I am not a Clearly one cannot communicate certain semantics through standard C. However, it is theoretically possible to get much of the performance via cooperation with the C compilation system (#pragma of various sorts). I suspect that if it is sucessful, it will get turned into a "normal" compiler. In the meantime it should give folks a chance to learn the new features of the language. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043