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From: speter@bacchus.UUCP
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Subject: MS-Fortran ver. 4.0
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Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 08:42:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  1 08:42:11 1987
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I recently beta tested Microsoft Fortran version 4.0.  To those of
you who are serious fortran programmers this version is well worth
a look see over the previous 3.31 version.  It is on sale now and
retails for about $450, less if you are a student at many colleges.
They have managed to reduce their code size by 1/3 while increasing
excution performance by almost 50%.  I ran these tests on an 
IBM-PC XT w/640k, co-processor (8087), and hercules graphics.  A simple
15 line code using floating point and a 30k repetition of a loop with
an astro-physic algorithm included was used to bench mark against old
3.31 MS-Fortran and Ryan-MacFarland ProFortran.  In beat both hands 
down.  The answer, by the way, came out dead on every time to the
minus 8 decimal.

				---peter osgood---



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I recently beta tested Microsoft Fortran version 4.0.  To those of
you who are serious fortran programmers this version is well worth
a look see over the previous 3.31 version.  It is on sale now and
retails for about $450, less if you are a student at many colleges.
They have managed to reduce their code size by 1/3 while increasing
excution performance by almost 50%.  I ran these tests on an 
IBM-PC XT w/640k, co-processor (8087), and hercules graphics.  A simple
15 line code using floating point and a 30k repetition of a loop with
an astro-physic algorithm included was used to bench mark against old
3.31 MS-Fortran and Ryan-MacFarland ProFortran.  In beat both hands 
down.  The answer, by the way, came out dead on every time to the
minus 8 decimal.

				---peter osgood---



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