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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by gnufx on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:57AM (#29850831)
What high performance BLAS do you have written in Fortran? I don't know of one (though I think I could write one with decent performance on simple targets). It seems the rule that this will come up whenever Fortran is pushed, though I don't want to disparage Fortran after so long.
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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by ChrisRackauckas on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:14AM (#29851358)
Yeah it's funny because they are all C these days.
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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by gnufx on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:13AM (#29852381)
Well, C plus assembler, or maybe non-standard machine-specific intrinsics, for the ones I know. They at least seem to need control over prefetching.
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