who /Fortran/ here?
Who /Fortran/ here?
Adam Ward
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Ryan Cooper
>Fortan
Found the script kiddie
Nolan Stewart
jouni ny nukkumaa ei helvetti :DD
Jacob Baker
Fortran is only useful for people who do science on super computers. Nobody else uses fortran
Brody Garcia
Why is this the case?
Aaron Hall
tää :D
Eli Baker
no pointer aliasing = better compile time optimizations
this is why fortran code wipes the floor with C code for math stuff
Lucas Watson
As in you can only have one pointer to a given address?
Ethan Price
Hmm interdasting
Carson Mitchell
You called?
Lucas Peterson
>babby language
not using cobol
Sebastian Carter
What do you do with it?
Ryder Mitchell
I do research in a computational chemistry research group, and a big part of that involves writing code for the program we use.
Elijah Wilson
coolio, what are you specifically researching?
Luis Cruz
Do you use desktops or a cluster to run your computations?
James Cruz
I'm pretty new to the group myself, so my research t the moment consists learning Fortran. I did do an internship with them though - for that, I studied the stability of various lanthanide complexes using computational software.
We use clusters for the big calculations. We write the input files on our main computers (technically Macs, but a lot of us prefer Linux), then transfer them to the cluster to actually run.
Cameron Martinez
I dont think its necessarily true that fortran is faster in terms of raw performance in current year. It is much easier to develop in fortran though. Especially if you are a scientist and not a software engineer.
Evan Murphy
writing a game engine in fortran
yes or want to die after a week?
Christopher Morgan
>games
Fuck off
Juan Cooper
do you hate fun user
Parker Powell
> fortran code wipes the floor with C code for math stuff
it doesn't really, in C you can just use "restrict" on a pointer and you will get the same effect. But usually it makes hardly any difference.
it means your pointers are assumed by default to not be aliased.
en.wikipedia.org
There are more complex cases than just two points pointing to the same given address, they could for instance just point into the same block of memory.
Christian Mitchell
>you called
no i didn't. go back to your pointershit faggot reeee.