Hi, On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 4:38:04 AM UTC+1, Michael Prentiss wrote: > > I implemented an program in Fortran and Julia for time comparison when > learning the language. > This was very helpful to find problems in how I was learning julia. Maybe > I did not read carefully enough, > but I would compile the fortran with the intel compilers (not MKL) instead > of gcc as another means for > comparing speed. The intel compilers tend to make faster executables. > > indeed. We regularly use the Intel compilers for our projects in Fortran, but for the moment I wanted to compare with gfortran for a fair comparison against Julia (since Julia was compiled with gcc)
I was hoping to later compile Julia with the Intel compilers and then compare with the executable created with the Intel Fortran compiler, but I had problems compiling Julia with the Intel compilers, and besides apparently Julia will not get a big performance boost in any case. (And for this toy program Intel doesn't seem to be able to get any performance boost over gfortran). Cheers, Ángel
