From 390989bda2d144fe8db5c9e552e639943e3973d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:36:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More info on Fortran interfaces. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@5043 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/future.html | 24 ++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/future.html b/deal.II/doc/future.html index ecaf8770ab..91a6f37f9a 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/future.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/future.html @@ -48,14 +48,22 @@ complicated applications.

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  • - Faster linear algebra: - The linear algebra implementation in - deal.II is quite fast, but only compared - to other C/C++ implementations. We know that Fortran - compilers can do a much better job in optimizing the tight - inner loops of matrix-vector operations. We plan to try - interfaces from C to Fortran for that purpose. +

  • + Faster linear algebra: The linear + algebra implementation in deal.II is quite + fast, at least compared to other C/C++ implementations. We + know that Fortran compilers can sometimes do a better job in + optimizing some algorithms. We therefore would like to + interface from C to Fortran for that purpose. +

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    + On the other hand, we have made some initial experiments with + interfacing to BLAS routines on SUN, but it turned out that + our own implementation of the routines we tried was faster + than the ones in the vendor BLAS. Nevertheless, interfacing + to LAPACK or other libraries implementing high level + algorithms would be interesting.

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