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From: fouts@lemming.nas.nasa.gov.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
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Date: 15 Sep 88 16:50:20 GMT
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Reply-To: fouts@lemming.nas.nasa.gov.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts)
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In article <3570@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>In short, any optimization possible for arrays of pointer to... is
>also possible for conformant arrays.  The reverse is _not_ true.

'taint so.  Perhaps any *time* optimization, but certainly not any
*space* optimization.  I don't have to allocate space for unused array
of pointer references.  Consider sparse address spaces, such as sparse
matrices. . .

Marty
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