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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sun 3 vs uVAXII floating point speed....
Summary: VAX Fortran on Ultrix
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Date: 16 Jul 88 18:40:41 GMT
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In article <59936@sun.uucp>, guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> Now I think DEC may offer the VMS FORTRAN compiler on Ultrix as well, and that
> also has a "real" optimizer.

Yes, they do.  The VAX optimizer may help your code more than you expect
unless you're very good at writing f_a_s_t_ Fortran (as opposed to nice,
readable Fortran).
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