Re: New MS Fortran

srw@csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Fri, 26 Oct 90 15:50:56 pdt

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From: srw@csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
In-Reply-To: <1990Oct25.211846.29118@beach.csulb.edu>
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Keywords: Fortran, review
Organization: Compilers Central
References: <9010230628.AA22160@admin.ogi.edu> <1990Oct24.162529.20452@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Oct25.010604.4796@twinsun.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 90 15:50:56 pdt

In article <1990Oct25.211846.29118@beach.csulb.edu> Jeff Sicherman writes:
>Maybe this belongs in alt.rumors, but does anybody know if there are any
>pending/possible upgrades to MS Fortran any time soon.


Yes. Buy Lahey :-) .


Seriously, I switched from MS Fortran 5.0 to Lahey Personal Fortran 3.00
(the $99 list compiler), and the persistent floating-point stack underflow
problems I'd been having on my AT clone disappeared. Compilation speed was
increased about a factor of 3, and run speed was not reduced at all.


The project in question, incidentally, uses the MINPACK routines, so yes,
the program is heavily floating-point oriented. Lahey is more expensive,
but offers an education discount of 25% off list with purchase of 5 or
more compilers.
--
Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
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