About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

There is considerable more overhead in compiling a C++ program. I would
> probably guess that FORTRAN would win. Another issue is optimization.
> Optimization can make major differences. On some RISC platforms we not
> only used compiler optimization, but also took the output from the
> compiler and based upon some of the hardware latency specifications,
> would reorder the resultant code. Today, many CPUs do this automatically.
> In any case when writing any code, state your goals ahead of time. I
> tend to like to write my code with an emphasis on readability and
> correctness. Once the code is working, I can run a performance analysis
> to see the places in the code things are slowing down.
>
> --
> Jerry Feldman
>


'Inside a program talk'!


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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