Wanted: Ultra-fast fortran compiler for UNIX

[Conor Rafferty]

>Can anyone point to a company that supplies a UNIX Fortran compiler which
>executes much faster than f77 (say, on par with the VMS compilers or better)?

Actually there is limited room for improvement.  The 4.2BSD compiler is
considerably better than the original f77 in that respect.  Published
work (by Jack Dongarra at Argonne National Laboratory
[dongarra at anl-mcs]) shows about 25-30% slower runtimes for the 4.2BSD
compiler over the VMS 4.1 compiler, for dense linear algebra.  I've
also coded some sparse linear algebra (essentially Yalepack) in
assembly and found only 30-35% speed up.  Let's give credit where
credit is due!

              Cheers,
conor rafferty == decwrl!glacier!conor == conor at su-glacier.arpa