[petsc-users] question about --with-fortran-kernels option

Michael Povolotskyi mpovolot at purdue.edu
Wed Jul 10 13:15:55 CDT 2013


On 07/10/2013 02:13 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Michael Povolotskyi <mpovolot at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>> does anybody know if it makes sense to build petsc with --with-fortran-kernels?
>     No.  It is just their so people who think Fortran code compiles to faster code than C can try it and see that it doesn't make any meaningful difference.
>
>      Barry
>
>> Thank you,
>> Michael.
>>
>>
I see. I heard some gossips that fortran compiles faster code to deal 
with complex numbers than C.
But you do no agree with that. Am I right?
Michael.


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