From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/25
Date: 1999-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fvfdc$chc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7fvbth$4m4$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
In article <7fvbth$4m4$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
Edwin Guenthner
<s_guenth@studsun1.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> There are even some people who think that Java will be
> the future in numerical computing (see
> http://www.javagrande.org/).
Seems unlikely unless the fundamental problems with the
floating-point model of Java are solved. The current
spec requires disastrously inefficient execution modes
on many high performance machines.
The goals of absolute portability and high performance are
seriously incompatible when it comes to floating-point if
by portability you mean bit-for-bit identity in results.
Robert Dewar
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-23 0:00 Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?) Hans N. Beck
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-24 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-27 0:00 ` me
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Joachim Schroeer
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