Re: Possible funding of gfortran work
On 01.06.23 13:12, Benson Muite via Fortran wrote: R and Octave may also be good examples of use cases. More generally, Lapack is written in Fortran, and R uses Lapack (as we found out the hard way with PR 90329). And Lapack is really a foundation of linear algebra, which is at the heart of a _lot_ of scientific software.
Re: Possible funding of gfortran work
On 01.06.23 12:59, Mikael Morin wrote: The latter paragraph seems more an answer to the question "why is it critical for gfortran to get funding" than "why is it critical for a funding body to choose gfortran"? Good point :-) One idea about the latter question: so that there is always a free solution: - for engineers to make best usage of the hardware available to them without hassle and spend their time at what they are best: making science - for decades-old proven science codes to be adapted to current parallel computing architecture So gfortran remains a viable alternative to existing commercial compilers. Best regards Thomas
