09-23-2010, 12:37 PM
igor1234, are you sure MATLAB is compiled by a C compiler to machine code? I was under the impression it was compiled by java to byte code. I am a structural engineer with no formal education in programming so I make no claim to being correct.
There must be a reason for the results you are getting. If VB was really "better" then fortran in terms of execution speed then why on earth would anyone use fortran. They are certainly some interesting results you have got there. I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see what you find.
One more thing I am curious about is, have you bench marked the performance of open source compilers like gfortran against intel for example. I think that would be interesting to see how these free compilers perform.
Good work - I hope to learn some fortran one day when the opportunity comes up. Although based on your results maybe I should be trying to learn VB.NET :lol:
regards elbarto
There must be a reason for the results you are getting. If VB was really "better" then fortran in terms of execution speed then why on earth would anyone use fortran. They are certainly some interesting results you have got there. I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see what you find.
One more thing I am curious about is, have you bench marked the performance of open source compilers like gfortran against intel for example. I think that would be interesting to see how these free compilers perform.
Good work - I hope to learn some fortran one day when the opportunity comes up. Although based on your results maybe I should be trying to learn VB.NET :lol:
regards elbarto
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