tlug: Re: Fortran

["Francis Brian O'Carroll" <ocarroll@example.com>]

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tlug note from "Francis Brian O'Carroll" <ocarroll@example.com>
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> I realy don't think that installing GCC in order to use G77 is all
> that big of a cost if you want an industrial strength FORTRAN
> compiler with high-quality optimization and debugging tools.

But is G77 really industrial strength (yet) and how good is its optimization
for numerical work?

I'm programming message-passing libraries in C and C++ for distributed memory
multiprocessors (many cpu's connected by gigabit-class networks)
and, while I don't program in Fortran myself, for benchmarking purposes
I run parallel FORTRAN scientific codes.

Until now, I have been using f2c + gcc, driven by fort77 (a perl script which
slots into makefiles built for f77).

Altho, after reading tlug and after checking out
	http://studbolt.physast.uga.edu/templon/fortran.html
it may be time to evaluate g77 in my environment (sunOS and netbsd, not many
linux boxes at work)

Frank O'Carroll
Tsukuba & Tokyo
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