Re:Julia Back-End for LFortran (LFortran – Julia Transpilation)
by jpfr on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:42AM
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Nice!
A good portion of the HPC load runs 50 year old fortran code from the netlib [1]. That could be converted over. Also for the current generation to understand the technical achievements that already exist.
The advantage of the old fortran code is speed and stability - having been tested over many years. For wide-spread acceptance, a transpiler to Julia would have to show a) little or no speed regressions and b) (formal?) assurance that the resulting code has identical semantics.
A good portion of the HPC load runs 50 year old fortran code from the netlib [1]. That could be converted over. Also for the current generation to understand the technical achievements that already exist.
The advantage of the old fortran code is speed and stability - having been tested over many years. For wide-spread acceptance, a transpiler to Julia would have to show a) little or no speed regressions and b) (formal?) assurance that the resulting code has identical semantics.
[1] https://netlib.org/