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Re:The End of Numeric Error: An interview with John L. Gusta... by santaclaus on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:27PM (#11574366)
> FORTRAN is still king of speed (which I'll need all I can get of) but is a pain to write

I'm surprised that, with the restrict keyword, one would see better code gen from Fortran than C. Isn't the lack of aliasing Fortran's primary advantage?

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Re:The End of Numeric Error: An interview with John L. Gusta... by neutronicus on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:38PM (#11574452)
Leveraging "restrict" is not a trivial thing to do.

If you're a researcher first and a software developer second (which I suspect is true of gp), the last thing you want to do is get into the weeds of inspecting gcc assembly to figure out where you didn't put a "restrict" that you should've.

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