Fortran - Re: Is C faster than fortran?

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Re: Is C faster than fortran?

user923005

2007-03-30, 7:04 pm

On Mar 30, 6:23 am, "Arjen Markus" <arjen.mar...@wldelft.nl> wrote:
> On 30 mrt, 09:51, "Arjen Markus" <arjen.mar...@wldelft.nl> wrote:
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> I tried this on a Windows XP machine too, but the Intel Fortran
> compiler version terminated in case 3 with a stack overflow.
> I did specify a stack of 16 million bytes (via the /F option),
> but that did not work. Should I use an even larger stack?

If I recall correctly, the arrays are about 20 MB.
I am kind of surprised that they are formulated as automatic
variables.
In the C version, they are allocated using malloc(), so they do not
exhaust automatic storage.
Hence the C version does not need excessive stack requirements.

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