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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Fortran follies
Summary: Data dependency, vector length, and vectorisers. Follies indeed.
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Date: 24 Jun 88 23:56:28 GMT
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In article <2168@sugar.UUCP> ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham) writes:
>                                                        it's done in a
>nice way so the compiler doesn't have to KNOW what it is. 

Actually, you want the compiler to know if you want really snazzy dependency
analysis. (Ah, yes, see this diophantine equation has a solution for n=xxx.
But my vectors ar only yyy long. Oh, no problem.) Of course nobody has
dependency analysis quite that snazzy.