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In article <1298@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> daniels@teklds.WR.TEK.COM (Scott Daniels) writes:

....This has been one of the problems for C that the ANSI standard addresses.  
   Original C was required to treat all library functions by invokation, just
....
   look for the top of the line new ANSI C compilers to start doing the kind of
   aggressive unfolding and reorganizing that was previously only available to 
   Fortran......

Actually enough errno nonsense and stuff was added so that SVID, ANSI,
POSIX are all modestly different .... and none as optimizable as
Fortran.

NCEG is working to rationalize matters.

...
   or at least approach the speed of FORTRAN programs.

Aliasing takes care of that. On any given machine, with equal efforts
given to the optimizer technology ... Fortran wins. The only way for C
to break even or win (on large application programs) is for the
compiler writers to avoid doing the best they can for Fortran, and
work overtime to fixup C.

....
   of analysis 
   as the system functions.  C++ provides some of this (much more than most 
   languages), but the functional languages (I am particularly thinking of lml 
   here) get closer to what you'd like than any of the more traditional languages.

Fortran 90 (as just renamed by X3J3) does about as good a job as C++,
or better in some ways. Still not the same as building the rules into
the compiler, of course.

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