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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by egl2019 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:52PM (#15477930)
Be careful about performance comparisons:

If you are using the GNU compilers (and the appropriate compiler flags with gcc), there isn't much difference in performance --- and there shouldn't be.

There are a few FORTRAN-only compilers out there; I'd be curious to see how well they do.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by sampo on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:52PM (#15478575)
I think the Intel compiler has a reputation of producing the fastest code, and Intel makes both C++ and Fortran compilers.
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