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Re: [RFC] Changing the implementation language of the fortran front-end
- From: "Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: "Jack Howarth" <howarth at bromo dot msbb dot uc dot edu>
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:05:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Changing the implementation language of the fortran front-end
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On Dec 3, 2007 6:02 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
> A comment from the peanut gallery. It seems that far more could
> be achieved by concentrating on collaborating with the middle-end
> maintainers to make sure that the new vectorization and
> predictive commoning optimizations understand how to determine
> strides in the flat matrices used by gfortran. At least this
> leverages the work being done in the middle-end to potentially
> yield some performance gains (compared to the more abstract gains from
> switching to c++).
See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-12/msg00065.html
Richard.