"R.S. Nikhil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Manuel M. T. Chakravarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:35 AM
> > ...
> >
> > * While Sisal is arguably nice than Fortran, it doesn't
> > really provide a new killer feature - rewriting all this
> > Fortran code, just for getting nice programs is maybe not
> > enough of an incentive.
>
> But it DID offer an important new feature relative to
> the original Fortran programs it was trying to
> displace -- completely automatic parallelization
> for the Cray vector machines that were the main
> workhorses at Livermore and similar labs.
Hmm, good point. So, did they succeed in reaching this
goal, compared to the awful guessing and trial & error you
have to go through before you get any decent performance out
of a vectorising Fortran compiler?
Manuel
