Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version Tektronix Network News Daemon (B 2.10.2 based); site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!stever From: stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: RE: IBM PC FORTRAN's (some old and some new info) Message-ID: <5744@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 13:33:28 EDT Article-I.D.: tektroni.5744 Posted: Mon Sep 23 13:33:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 05:05:42 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 42 you ought to check out F77L by Lahey Computer Systems 31244 Palos Verdes West Suite 243 Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274 (213) 541-1200 they claim to have been serving the FORTRAN community since l969, which is certainly more than Microsoft can say! F77L is a full implementation of the F77 standard and beats the IBM Professional FORTRAN; I don't know whether it has all you want, but if they keep being so responsive to my demands for features that I need in a FORTRAN compiler I may have to finally buy it! steve tektronix!stever p.s. i own Microsoft FORTRAN 3.3 p.p.s. i am working on some benchmarks dealing with the difference in handling small and large arrays for MS 3.3 and Lahey p.p.p.s. below are some benchmark times for a 1700 line program IBM IBM Lahey 2.0 P77 F77L ----- ----- ----- Compile 20:07 21:44 5:35 Execute 3:32 2:04 2:03 note: times courtesy of Wayne Garber, coordinator for the FORTRAN SIG of the Portland IBM-PC Club