Highly Optimizable Subset of C (was: Fortran vs. C for numerical work)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Nov24.201731.3442 at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
>... the above observations would seem to imply that if the programmer
>simply restricts him/herself to a Fortran-like "highly optimizable subset"
>of C, then he/she can expect Fortran-like performance out of any reasonably
>good C compiler.

It doesn't matter whether that is true or not; such crippled programming
would negate much of the advantage of using C in the first place.  Use
the right tool for the job and stop worrying about code optimization!