Re: Application development (entirely) in C

From: Leif Laaksonen <Leif.Laaksonen[ AT ]convex.csc.fi>
Subject: Re: Application development (entirely) in C
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1991 21:35:59 +0200

Hi Joe,
 What do you mean by chemistry code? If you mean graphics code then most
 of the code is written in c or c++ (I belive) but if you refer to the so called
 number crunching then most of the code is still done in fortran (I believe).
 As far as I know there are work going on for rewriting old MD/MM code into c.
 I would be happy to see how close good c-coding comes to old fortran coding
 in the sence of computation efficiency. The tests I made on our Cray showed
 that good vector fortran coding is still much faster than my c-code. Does
 anybody know if this is still the case? On normal workstations the c-code
 should be pretty close to fortran code.
 I don't know what people think but as an old fortran programmer I now do
 everything in c and I really would never change back to fortran.
 Cheerio,
 -leif laaksonen