Re: Compaq Visual Fortran discontinued: upgrade to Intel Visual Fortran?



Tim Prince wrote:
Vincent wrote:

It would be also interesting to know what happens with and AMD Athlon processor. Does the Intel Visual Fortran proposes optimizations for AMD ?

ifort has options which support both AMD and Intel processors, but none which intentionally favor AMD over Intel.

In other words, some optimisation for AMD, but not enough to threaten Intel. .



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