From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Matrix Multiplication
Date: 1999/12/14
Date: 1999-12-14T21:31:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836cul$djp$1@hobbes2.crc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 385699B5.59C14D03@lmco.com
William Dale <william.dale.jr@lmco.com> wrote in message
news:385699B5.59C14D03@lmco.com...
> OK,
> I was challenged by one of my co-workers - a control and guidance type -
> not a real software engineer.
>
> His claim : "Fortran is faster doing floating point multiplication than
> Ada"
>
> I could not get any other specifications such as hardware, particular
> compiler, version, vendor, special math libraries or any other
> equivocations. Just he
> claims the above in all cases.
>
> So could I get some help getting times for a Matrix inversion on a 50X50
> flotaing point matrix in both languages. Anyone already done these
> types of tests? Any sugestions on special libraries that he may not know
> about to do such things in Ada. Obviously he has the Fortan side nailed.
>
> I know it is silly but this is the kind of FUD that gets thown around
> all the time. Either language could win - it depends on many of the
> above issues.
Well... any meaningful comparison could only be drawn if both subprograms
were implementing the same algorithm.
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1999-12-14 0:00 Matrix Multiplication William Dale
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <5l1f5s4kck891a2s6o8bhvkirm4q79hm6c@4ax.com>
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-27 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-14 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Greg Lindahl
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
[not found] ` <01bf4708$99ef98f0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Dieter Britz
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-15 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
[not found] ` <3856FD3F.8291A71C@ucar.edu>
1999-12-15 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Richard Maine
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-16 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
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1999-12-15 0:00 Carlisle, Martin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-16 0:00 Carlisle, Martin
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
[not found] <637de084-0e71-4077-a1c5-fc4200cad3cf@googlegroups.com>
2012-07-10 8:39 ` Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 9:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-12 0:31 ` robin.vowels
2012-07-12 7:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 13:39 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 14:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:54 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
[not found] ` <apib1897s56dkultqmfl3emvk1os3tfdak@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-30 4:15 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
[not found] ` <nfhd181tv9u87mcqfb7rgd8lm48ihr9f4r@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-31 8:53 ` MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Robin Vowels
2012-07-31 9:05 ` Robin Vowels
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