News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why physicists still use Fortran. Parent comment

Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by Animats on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:50AM (#13218393)
Is the compiler smart enough to do strength reduction and get rid of the multiply when indexing? FORTRAN compilers have been doing that for multidimensional arrays since 1954.
[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.