Hi, Lukas Geyer wrote:
> As an
> aside, I don't quite understand why Fortran is still so popular in the
> numerical mathematics community... :)
There still are a lot of Fortran libraries which people are used to,
and they have been heavily optimized over the years.
The sad trutz is also that historically, since C is a language where any
pointer can point anywhere, some optimizations which are rather obvious in
Fortran compilers are difficult if not impossible in C. This has changed
somewhat (C99), but ...
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