Benchmarking Java against C and Fortran for scientific applications

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 15, Issue 3-5 SPEC., 2003, Pages 417-430

  Bull, J M ^a   Smith, L A ^a   Ball, C ^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); CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

JUST IN TIME COMPILERS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0037334729     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.658     Document Type: Article

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