Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:31:56 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r253215 - head/lib/msun/src Message-ID: <20130730153156.GA31462@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20130730070223.GA74642@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <201307111741.r6BHf5gQ060844@svn.freebsd.org> <20130729070517.GA3192@zim.MIT.EDU> <00F2B647-8D25-45FB-B852-5214AC27AD26@FreeBSD.org> <20130730070223.GA74642@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:02:23AM -0700, David Schultz wrote: > Fortran has its own problems and isn't very well supported. I take issue with the later assertion. Fortran is well support in GCC >4.6. See GCC list of front-end maintainers. :-) > But for what it's worth, C++ is actually a good choice for > high-performance numerics, IMO, mainly because of operator > overloading and generics. I can write a function that looks like > actual math, and call it with a float, a double, or even an > arbitrary-precision mpfr_t, and it just works. I almost spit my morning coffee on my keyboard. One can do the same thing in Fortran. Of course, I'm talking about a modern version of Fortran: namely, Fortran 2003 or Fortran 2008. -- Steve
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