Re:Fortran is still a thing
by TomVDB on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @07:31PM
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In practical terms: what kind of performance difference would one see between optimized C(++) and optimized Fortran when running exactly the same algorithm?
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According to the Julia benchmarks (and I assume Julia folks are relatively unbiased re: C vs Fortran), it depends on the algorithm [1], but less than an order of magnitude in either direction. I'm kinda surprised Fortran doesn't do better there actually -- but at this level it probably also depends on compiler and architecture.