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From: richmon@astrovax.UUCP (Michael Richmond)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77,net.unix
Subject: Results of query for fast fortran under UNIX
Message-ID: <628@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 12:15:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 12:15:19 1985
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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  About three weeks ago, I posted a message asking whether anyone knew
of a fortran compiler that would run under 4.2 BSD on a VAX and was faster
than the standard f77. I have received no positive responses, which seems
quite puzzling: here at astrovax, and at many other places, there is great
demand for such a product. About all I did learn, and it can be taken as
either good news or bad news, is that f77 runs about 20-30% slower than
the VMS compiler, a "fast" one.
  If, on the other hand, the Obfuscated Fortran Company puts out a compiler 
that blows the doors off f77, please let me know - I'd love to be proved
wrong.

-- 
Michael Richmond			Princeton University, Astrophysics

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