Re: Who uses clapack?

From: Roman Werpachowski (_at_theta1.cft.edu.pl)
Date: 12/16/04


Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:13:55 +0000 (UTC)

On the 16 Dec 2004 11:31:41 -0600, beliavsky@aol.com wrote:
>
> Roman Werpachowski <"r o m a nNOSPAM"@theta1.cft.edu.pl> wrote:
>>On the 16 Dec 2004 08:42:59 -0600, beliavsky@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Can you define something like
>>>>>>
>>>>>> struct {
>>>>>> int *modes;
>>>>>> int *parts;
>>>>>> double energy;
>>>>>> } state;
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> type :: state
>>>>> integer, pointer :: modes => null()
>>>>> integer, pointer :: parts => null()
>>>>> double precision :: energy
>>>>> end type state
>>>>
>>>>In Fortran 77 ?
>>>
>>> No. Fortran 90 or 95.
>>
>>Since there is no free stable Fortran 95 compiler with optimizing, this
>>is of no use to me.
>
> Intel Fortran for Linux is free for noncommercial use. In general, Fortran
> 95 compilers are less expensive than the Matlab software your organization
> is willing to purchase. I have seen studies finding that gcc is considerably
> slower than the Intel C/C++ compiler for some benchmarks.

But I prefer to code in C, which is free ;-)
In general, I prefer to use free software when it is good enough. Gcc is
good enough for me.

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