Marcin Dalecki wrote: > Please bear with me. English is my 3th foreign language.
No offense intended, You're lucky you haven't been subjected to my Spanish... my wife cringes. > You should always place Java last in discussions about numerical work. > It's largely irrelevant in this area due to the inherent inefficiency > it bears. > Fortran first due to tons of well tested legacy code out there, > C and C++ next is indeed fine. I wasn't ordering the languages in any particular way, just noting that they have differences. Java developers have long disliked me for a review I wrote some years ago that pointed out Java's weaknesses in numerical work. > However I advise you to read for example the documentation about > Cray C to see how this kind of stuff is handled there. Taking a look at > Sun's C compiler will not hurt as well to see how a FPU which is quite unique > get's handled. Thank you for the pointers. ..Scott
