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Re: food for optimizer developers
Hi Richard,
> How about using an automatic converter to arrange for C++ code to
> call into the generated Fortran code instead? Create nice classes
> and wrappers and such, but in the end arrange for the Fortran code
> to be called to do the real work.
I found it very labor intensive to maintain a mixed Fortran/C++ build
system. I rather take the speed hit than dealing with the constant
trickle of problems arising from non-existing or incompatible Fortran
compilers.
We distribute a pretty large system in source form to users (biologist)
who sometimes don't even know what a command-line prompt is.
If installation doesn't work out of the box a large fraction
of our users simply give up.
Ralf