From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Aug 91 16:14:11 GMT From: timbuk!sequoia!gbt@uunet.uu.net (Greg Titus) Subject: Re: Ada in a C++ Interview Message-ID: <111411.1085@timbuk.cray.com> List-Id: In article <1991Aug06.220725.4010@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) wr ites: >... I keep hearing that "only FORTRAN" >is suitable for vectorizing stuff on Crays (obvious malarkey, since >Ada is inherently vectorizable [can you say "tasking"], but what >the heck). Better yet, can you say "loop"? ;-) Any language with looping constructs (quick! name one without!), whether implicit or explicit ones, is potentially vectorizable. You actually may get a break vectorizing Ada, because the language is such that more information is available to the compiler regarding the possible values of variables at runtime than it is in, say, Fortran or C. [This thread started with someone reporting a DoD person as having claimed that nobody in DoD was using Ada on Crays. I won't comment on customer activities (that's their business), but the CRI PR office may be able to provide more accurate information on the subject.] greg -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Titus (gbt@zia.cray.com) Compiler Group (Ada) Cray Research, Inc. Santa Fe, NM Opinions expressed herein (such as they are) are purely my own.