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It was a MODERN Fortran like language that Guy Steele and all were developing at Sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...
It did not stand much of a chance once Oracle took over.
On one hand this is a great news and as Fortran user pretty happy about it. On the other I’m a bit worried that once LLVM backend will take off for real, so much focus will concentrate on it, that other compilers (PGI, gfortran, Intel Fortran) development will finally stall or even get dropped and we will wake up in future where LLVM behemoth swallowed all the competition. This concern is not only limited to Fortran,…
I am not a compiler expert but I wonder if FORTRAN will lose its speed advantages it still supposedly has if it goes through LLVM.
C/C++ does not have alias-annotations built-in. Although with template constructs like done in e.g. the Eigen library, alias-optimal code can be generated.
On one hand this is a great news and as Fortran user pretty happy about it. On the other I’m a bit worried that once LLVM backend will take off for real, so much focus will concentrate on it, that other compilers (PGI, gfortran, Intel Fortran) development will finally stall or even get dropped and we will wake up in future where LLVM behemoth swallowed all the competition. This concern is not only limited to Fortran,…
On one hand this is a great news and as Fortran user pretty happy about it. On the other I’m a bit worried that once LLVM backend will take off for real, so much focus will concentrate on it, that other compilers (PGI, gfortran, Intel Fortran) development will finally stall or even get dropped and we will wake up in future where LLVM behemoth swallowed all the competition. This concern is not only limited to Fortran,…
On one hand this is a great news and as Fortran user pretty happy about it. On the other I’m a bit worried that once LLVM backend will take off for real, so much focus will concentrate on it, that other compilers (PGI, gfortran, Intel Fortran) development will finally stall or even get dropped and we will wake up in future where LLVM behemoth swallowed all the competition. This concern is not only limited to Fortran,…
I am not a compiler expert but I wonder if FORTRAN will lose its speed advantages it still supposedly has if it goes through LLVM.
On one hand this is a great news and as Fortran user pretty happy about it. On the other I’m a bit worried that once LLVM backend will take off for real, so much focus will concentrate on it, that other compilers (PGI, gfortran, Intel Fortran) development will finally stall or even get dropped and we will wake up in future where LLVM behemoth swallowed all the competition. This concern is not only limited to Fortran,…
What exactly is the benefit of having multiple compilers? I'm not well versed in the area, but it seems like having one compiler is better from the perspectives of standardization, having a single way of handling undefined behaviors, etc?
I'm new to the Fortran scene, btw. I probably can't do more than fix typos, but the Good First Issues on the github are:
https://github.com/flang-compiler/f18/labels/good%20first%20...
Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FC-LLVM-...