C Is Not Suited to SIMD

Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by kazinator on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:17AM (#42849088)

But restrict says "I promise that these things don't overlap, on penalty of my program going to hell". Is that what's going on in Fortran?

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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by cozzyd on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:14AM (#42849390)

yes, Fortran forbids referring to the same memory location by multiple names.

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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by pklausler on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:51AM (#42849586)

Nope. There’s lots of ways to alias storage in Fortran.

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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by cozzyd on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:06AM (#42853910)

sorry, I meant in the case of function parameters, though I'm far from a fortran expert so there may be exceptions.

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