Benchmarking Java against C and Fortran for scientific applications

ACM 2001 Java Grande/ISCOPE Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 97-105

  Bull, J M ^a   Smith, L A ^a   Pottage, L ^a   Freeman, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; C; Fortran; Java; Performance; Scientific applications

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (STANDARDS); FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM COMPILERS;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0035790380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/376656.376823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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