A Case Study of Some Issues in the Optimization of Fortran 90 Array Notation

Scientific Programming

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 219-237

  McCalpin, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM COMPILERS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

FORTRAN 90 ARRAY NOTATION; MEMORY TRAFFIC; MEMORY USE; SEMANTICS;

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 0030243860     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1996/208679     Document Type: Article

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