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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by nine_k on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:26AM (#42849142)
Also, Fortran has progressed immensely since F77 days. (I actually wrote some F77 code back in the day, when it was already ancient.) C has also progressed quite a bit since K&R days, but, to my mind, not nearly as much.
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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by cozzyd on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:15AM (#42849398)
right, the problem for scipy developers I believe is that not enough of them know fortran, whereas C knowledge is necessary to hack on CPython native extensions.
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Re:C Is Not Suited to SIMD by holdenweb on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:21AM (#42863743)
Oh, my God, I actually wrote some code in Fortran 2 back in 1969! It's certainly a much better language now!
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