(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5240) Interesting article

[Van Snyder]

On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:42 -0700, Damian Rouson wrote:
> 
> On May 8, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 10:35 +0100, John Reid wrote:
> > 
> > If Julia really wants to get past half as fast as Fortran, maybe the
> > target ought to be Fortran instead of LLVM.
> 
> These aren?t mutually exclusive.  There are Fortran front ends that
> use LLVM as the back end, e.g., DragonEgg: http://dragonegg.llvm.org.

Do such compilers produce code with performance comparable to
purpose-built compilers, such as Intel's, or is the code half as fast?

If the latter, maybe Julia ought to target Fortran, and compile the
resulting code with a purpose-built Fortran compiler.

> Damian