The latest version of the LLVM compiler suite has promoted its Fortran front end. "Flang" is now official.… LLVM 20.1 appeared last week. This is a major release following LLVM 19.1, which came out in ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe ...

If speed isn't an issue you could try Cygwin which comes with gcc which includes a fortran compiler. I mention speed because IMO apps running under cygwin are noticably slower than 'native' ones. And ...

Absoft Corp. announced at this week’s Supercomputing 2004 Conference the release of new tools for its IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition and IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition compilers running on Mac OS X.

In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance. One of the ...

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On Wednesday, IBM introduced two compilers that are new to Mac OS X: XL Fortran Advanced Edition V8.1 and XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V6.0. The company noted that they generate code much faster than G77 ...