Interest article

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Dear Steve,


> "gfortran developers have made significant strides in efficient
>  implementation, approaching the efficiency of C or f77 in more
>  cases than ifort."

Considering that this is only version 4.3 that they are talking about,
it is good news.  It would be interesting to know how much of the
credit that the gfortran developers can take and how much is due to
gcc developments.

>
> But, there appear to be some warts: "All good except gfortran."

What does this mean?  The benchmark failed, gfortran was slowest, or.....?
>
> PS: Most comments apply to gfortran 4.3, so gfortran may have
> addressed some of the problems mentioned.

Indeed, the article says as much.

Thanks for pointing the article out.

Cheers

Paul