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

[Toon Moene]

On 05/09/2014 01:42 AM, 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.

Hmmm, on the 24th of January there was a short discussion on the GCC 
mailing list on Fortran and DragonEgg.

This was the final reply of the maintainer of DragonEgg:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00238.html

Kind regards,

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