Re: [MACTCL] Ponderings of an open source developer...

[Lizardo H. C. M. N. <li...@ur...>]

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 03:29  PM, Jim Ingham wrote:

There have been a number of notes from the Darwin list telling of 
success in getting Fortran code to compile with g77.  This is not going 
to be the super-optimizing Fortran compiler that you are used to from, 
say, the SGI or VAX environments...  For that, you will probably have to 
wait for the AbSoft compiler.  But it gets the job done.
-----

I built g77( version 0.5.25 ) with Fink. The  output  of my own code 
matches with that of an Athlon 700 MHZ running Linux (I can't say what 
is the g77 version) ---Funny is that the Athlon  seems to have a similar 
performance when compared to my Cube 450 Mhz, but I can't garantee. I 
don't see the relevance of testing it since I couldn't get great 
discrepancies... )

Alternatively, for g77 check :
http://dryden.biol.yorku.ca/g77
or post a message on dar...@op... and you'll get 
pointers.

People say that Absoft Fortran is twice as fast as Fink's g77, but if 
you have a G4 you can also look at
http://www.psrv.com.
for instant vectorization of loops.

That's it
Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes

...But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to 
the
Greeks foolishness;(...)but God has chosen the foolish things of the 
world
to confound the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are strong;(I Cor.1:23&27)

P.S.:

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 03:29  PM, Jim Ingham wrote:
> James,
>
> I am glad this is going well!
>
>
>> If you have more demanding X uses when the XonX project can provide a 
>> full
>> Xfree86 (currently v4.2) for MacOS X for free. Also the Fink and 
>> Gnu-Darwin
>> projects (also free) can provide the rest of the GNU experience 
>> (although at
>> present I haven't needed any of this as the standard development 
>> environment
>> seems to contain all I need except for Fortran, but I think f2c will 
>> solve
>> that).
>>

You if are connected to a Linux LAN you can use  XDarwin and " ssh -X " 
to work on any application remotely too.