26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
9:54 p.m.
So I agree, had the same initial reaction. But I read the paper a
second time and the point about Fortran, all these years later, still
being a thing resonated. The hardware guys stand on their heads to
give us coherent caches.
Fortran is a higher level language. It gives he compiler more flexibility in deciding
what the programmer intended and how to automatically optimize for the platform.
C is often a “You asked for it, you got it” type paradigm/