[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 01:20 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>>  I was just reading about a
>>> library called Blitz.  It's a C++ library, which along with the 
>>> normal
>>> compilers like KAI, intel, gcc, etc, it also supports Cray's 3.0.0.0
>>> C++
>>> compiler, and claims to deliver fortran like speeds for vector math.
>>> It
>>> would be interesting to know if they are telling the truth.
>>
>>   So...umm...why not just use FORTRAN?
>
> Don't know fortran.  Find little reason to use fortran for modern
> development except for the possibility that on some platforms the
> fortran compiler is better optimized that the C compiler.

   ...which seems to be just about every HPC platform out there.

   Modern FORTRAN is just as well-suited to modern development as modern 
C.  It has evolved from a general-purpose language (though with a 
slight scientific bent) into a pretty much HPC-specific language, and 
does that stuff very well.

         -Dave

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