Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:808 comp.software-eng:645 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!sri-unix!garth!smryan 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. Message-ID: <801@garth.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 23:56:28 GMT References: <5377@cup.portal.com> <2852@mmintl.UUCP> <1005@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <777@garth.UUCP> <2168@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 8 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.