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- From: uar@southwind.net (richard mross)
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- Subject: Re: Why is C faster than FORTRAN?
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 19:20:26 GMT
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- >|>My question is: what is the reason that C is so much quicker? Is C normally
- >|>faster than FORTRAN?
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- write a program in both languages and set the compilers on both to
- output assembly code. compare the output to see what one compiler is
- doing compared to the other
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