... represent a viewpoint that has to be acknowledged. There are around a thousand subscribers to this group according to Google and surely they can be a good source of information about these questions - but the fuddy-duddies would come out of the woodwork with howls of furious protest EACH AND EVERY TIME anybody has dared to raise the ...

In article <slrnevbmbh.6d4.foo@vipunen.hut.fi>, Janne Blomqvist <foo@bar.invalid> wrote: Especially given your previous comments that Pathscale has a pretty dumb scalarizer, with the smarts residing in the scalar optimizers (presumably in the language-independent part). I was going to send you email about this, but you haven't bothered to provide your email address, so I guess you...

... you have some features gfortran doesn't have (and vice versa, I guess), and gfortran still has some catching up to do wrt performance, but a factor of 10 in sloc is hard to swallow. Especially given your previous comments that Pathscale has a pretty dumb scalarizer, with the smarts residing in the scalar optimizers (presumably in the language-independent part). -- Janne Blomqvist

...a year or more ago, I found no definition that matched this context. I posted a comment asking what the definition was in this case, and whether it derived from the kind of ...such as troll, to have a precise lexicographic definition? Is asking for one itself a troll? Aren't self-referential questions suspect? ;-) -- Cheers! Dan Nagle Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc....

... posts, it's just pasted together in a way that destroys context. When I looked up "troll" on wikipedia a year or more ago, I found no definition that matched this context. I posted a comment asking what the definition was in this case, and whether it derived from the kind of troll that lurks under a bridge or from the fishing technique. Last time I looked, my question was still ...

... my tiny killfile. But he may already be in your killfile -- is he the same person as AbdulQat@hotmail.com or mrhrundivbakshi@hotmail.com ? Could be. They do sound a lot alike. I never bothered to look deeper; they aren't worth it. I finally figured out what troll means. When you look at what he posts, it's just pasted together in a way that destroys context. -- LS

...your killfile -- is he the same person as AbdulQat@hotmail.com or mrhrundivbakshi@hotmail.com ? Could be. They do sound a lot alike. I never bothered to look deeper; they aren't worth it. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain

...length string seems to give Fortran a stroke. My suggestion - If it is that hard - then DON'T DO IT FORTRAN - do it through C-interop. I am always a bit confused by such comments. C strings are not all that good. I have the collection of C string functions available in my private "library". Once the "I0" formatting arrived to match "A" formatting my use of the C ...

... length string seems to give Fortran a stroke. My suggestion - If it is that hard - then DON'T DO IT FORTRAN - do it through C-interop. I am always a bit confused by such comments. C strings are not all that good. I have the collection of C string functions available in my private "library". Once the "I0" formatting arrived to match "A" formatting my use of the C strings went down a ...

analyst41@hotmail.com wrote: (MUCH snippage) A typical application today would look like (1) A data base with input data (with an Extract Transform Load process in front of it). Database (Ingres RDBMS on Solaris), with real-time and human (keyboard) and assorted batch input processes for data files from many different sources. (2) Things you want to do with ...