Re: Choice of programming language

Hello,

Michael Hennebry wrote:

<snip a bunch>

That said, C/C++ allows at least one optimization that is difficult
to do in FORTRAN: aggregating data of different types.
Parallel arrays could double your cache
misses and require an extra register.
This could have changed. It's been a while since I used FORTRAN.

Things have changed, Fortran (note spelling) has had user defined
types for 15 years now.

<snip the rest>

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Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
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