Re: Numerical Computation and Ada95

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3AFAF555.F534480E@lmtas.lmco.com>, Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> writes:
> As an F95 programmer, I don't think that for most applications the
> performance difference between these languages will be significantly
> different if you limit the code to easily optimizable constructs. 
> However, it is my impression that Fortran compiler vendors have
> traditionally been much more obsessed with performance issues and I'm
> certain that the standards committee designs nearly everything
> obsessively with performance issues in mind (i.e. not "expressivity" of
> language constructs).

Whereas I was under the impression that the Fortran standard had recently
added "pointer" constructs, the bane of optimization everywhere.