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Article #313Re: New Ultrix f77
From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1986 21:56
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1986 21:56
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> I saw a DEC press release that says that the f77 in the > latest Ultrix release has been much improved, and is 3 times > faster than the BSD version. > > Does anyone know what this means? Does the target code run > 3 times faster, or the compiler itself? Almost certainly, the generated code (under favorable circumstances). The VMS Fortran compiler generates pretty decent VAX code, not surprisingly. It sounds very much like they ported that to Ultrix.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) Newsgroups: net.lang.f77 Subject: Re: New Ultrix f77 Message-ID: <2111@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 16:56:37 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2111 Posted: Fri Jan 31 16:56:37 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Feb-86 05:19:35 EST References: <1574@emory.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 10