Warp wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>> Nothing is faster than C, some wise men said. ;)
>
> Someone claimed to me once that fortran has some tricks in its sleeve with
> certain types of mathematical programming that allows it to generate much
> faster code than C can. In order to get the same speed with C you have to
> resort to (obviously non-portable) inline asm.
I can't comment on whether that's true, but I know there is a fairly
large codebase of existing numerical-processing stuff in Fortran...
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