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- From: dowd@wisper.com (Kevin Dowd)
- Subject: Re: rules for efficient programming in Fortran?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.030251.1271@wisper.com>
- Organization: home.
- References: <1993Jan3.203936.150@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:02:51 GMT
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- engel@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
- : Hello,
- : Do you have rules for efficient programming in FORTRAN
- : (or suggestions for reading appropriate books)
- : so that there is no excessive or unnecessary CPU? If so,
- : could you send them to me?
- : Thanks,
- : Micky Engel
- : (e-address: engel@hujivms.bitnet OR engel@shum.cc.huji.ac.il)
-
- Interesting that you should bring that up... I'm just putting the
- finishing touches on a book about architectures, benchmarking and
- tuning for publisher O'Reilly and Associates. The book explains
- how various RISC processors get their speed, and how to tweak
- application code so that it "plays to" the processor and, perhaps
- more importantly, the memory system. It also explains how optimizing
- compilers work, how to profile programs and interpret the results,
- and how to structure benchmarks. To round things out, there is
- material about distributed and shared memory parallel computers--
- what they are and how you program them.
-
- I think that you will find the book valuable if you are curious about
- computer performance, if you need to understand benchmarks for
- purchase decisions, or if you are looking for more performance from
- a machine you already own. We've worked hard to make it both
- informative and enjoyable reading. We hope you will like it.
- I'm sorry that it's not available yet, but it will be out in the
- not too distant future.
-
- -Kevin
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