Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uiucuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!beaucham From: beaucham@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.f77 Subject: xf77 compiler ? - (nf) Message-ID: <32400001@uiucuxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 22:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.32400001 Posted: Wed Jun 20 22:45:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:58:51 EDT Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #N:uiucuxc:32400001:000:652 Nf-From: uiucuxc!beaucham Jun 20 21:45:00 1984 #N:uiucuxc:32400001:000:652 uiucuxc!beaucham Jun 20 21:45:00 1984 eee In looking at an article entitled "Performance of Various Computers Using Standard Linear Equations Software in a Fortran Environment" by Jack J. Dongarra of Argonne National Lab. I note that they tested the VAX 780 with floating pt. accelerator using the "xf77" Fortran compiler. His benchmark results show that xf77 under Unix is only slightly slower than the Fortran which runs under VMS with the same hardware. However, I have heard from several sources that f77 under Unix runs much slower than VMS Fortran . Question: does anyone know what xf77 is? (we e don't have it). Jim Beauchamp uiucdcs!uiucuxc!beaucham