Re: [julia-users] Realistic Medium-Long Term Hopes for Julia Speed vs Fortran

[Isaiah Norton]

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> Are there any LLVM based fortran compilers around?
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It is possible to use LLVM as the optimization/codegen backend for GNU
Fortran (see "DragonEgg"). There were a few attempts to build a pure-LLVM
"FLANG", but they seem to have fizzled out.