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From: singer@endor.UUCP
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Subject: Re: LSC Programming Tools: and improved arithmetic.
Message-ID: <3085@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 09:42:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 09:42:18 1987
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In article <226@pembina.UUCP> simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike) writes:
>
>Running a program that is primarily arithmetic operations, written in C
>and compiled in LSC with floats, is much slower than the equivalent
>written in fortran.  This all on a Mac plus, and no data structure

	I assume here that you're referring to MS Fortran. MS Fortran doesn't
use the SANE data types and trap calls, and as a result is about ten
times faster than any calls that use the SANE traps. The way to  get some
speed back is to use doubles as much as possible, but given your memory
constraints you may be stuck.

		--Rich

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