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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/20
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In article <7akvaq$j5t$4@plug.news.pipex.net>,
  "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think there would be any point. In nearly all
> practical cases, an optimiser can determine if the order
> of iteration of the loop doesn't matter; it can then do
> vectorisation or parallelisation perfectly well.
> (And, in many cases, the optimiser can be helped simply
> by rearranging the algorithm a little.)

So I guess you are saying Nick that the folks who designed
Fortran 95 did not know what they were doing, and that the
parallel loop is a silly unnecessary construct :-)

I really think you should read through the old thread on
for all if it can still be found somewhere. There are a lot
of subtleties here that have occupied the minds and
research programs of a lot of top people in the compiler
field, and you really should read the literature in this
area before making pronouncements like the one above!

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