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From: Gerald Kasner <Gerald.Kasner@Physik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
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Subject: Re: comparing gnat/Ada95 and g77
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> Absolutely true. I tried the Compaq Visual Fortran on that piece of code
> (the original one), and the speedup is huge, 68 sec. for g77 (cygwin)
> versus 4.9 sec for CVF6. Probably CVF does all the possible semplifications
> that have been suggested in previous posts.
> 
> Dan

My Fortran exeriences date back 10 years or so, but these days there 
was a Fortran preprocessor for the RS6000, an incredible thing. Together 
with XLF there were giant speedups. For pure number crunching a fine
thing. 

But, to all our luck, life is more than number crunching, and the last
compiler 
I used before that machine died was Powerada from OCSystems ;-)

Gerald