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Re:Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C, fastest language on ... by biasedstudy on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:32AM (#3456085)
Intel Fortran vs gcc ???

How about Intel Fortran vs. Intel C ? How about gcc C vs. gcc Fortran ?

Hyper-optimized compiler for Intel architecture beats compiler designed to be portable to many, many target architectures? Not very shocking.

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Re:Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C, fastest language on ... by mrich on Thursday January 12, 2012 @08:44AM (#3456262)
This. ICC is known to beat gcc usually.
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Re:Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C, fastest language on ... by jbooth on Thursday January 12, 2012 @10:46AM (#3456677)
Yeah, I'd suspect that better use of SSE instructions is the big win for number crunching.
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Re:Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C, fastest language on ... by igouy on Thursday January 12, 2012 @12:32PM (#3457149)
https://alioth.debian.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=14867...
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Re:Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C, fastest language on ... by jbooth on Thursday January 12, 2012 @01:00PM (#3457287)
Cool. Yeah, seems like it's better inlining and use of XMM registers more than the SSE instructions themselves.
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