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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: New Ultrix f77
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 16:56:37 EST
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> I saw a DEC press release that says that the f77 in the
> latest Ultrix release has been much improved, and is 3 times
> faster than the BSD version.
> 
> Does anyone know what this means? Does the target code run
> 3 times faster, or the compiler itself? 

Almost certainly, the generated code (under favorable circumstances).
The VMS Fortran compiler generates pretty decent VAX code, not
surprisingly.  It sounds very much like they ported that to Ultrix.