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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ultrix `fort' vs BSD `f77'
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Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 00:55:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 00:55:57 1987
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References: <193@skatter.UUCP> <748@imagen.UUCP> <251@skatter.UUCP>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: FORTRAN-77, VMS-FORTRAN-77, look beautiful
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>In article <748@imagen.UUCP> geof@imagen.UUCP writes:
>>... On Unix, you can easily construct a fortran code beautifier
>>with a simple shell command.  Just use:

>>	% rm *.f77

>>:-)

In article <251@skatter.UUCP> kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo) writes:
>I would gladly use this shell command! We found that the new Ultrix FORTRAN
>is at least 3-4 times faster than f77, even though a few bugs have been found
>in fort.

Does that mean it *compiles* 3-4 times faster, or that the code *runs*
3-4 times faster after having been compiled?  And what code?

The 4.2BSD f77 compiler was pretty bad; the 4.3 compiler is much
more correct, and the runtime libraries, now written in Vax assembly,
are much faster, but I would be greatly surprised to find that even
the ported VMS compiler could beat even the old 4.2 f77 by a factor
of four, except on carefully selected benchmarks.
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