f77 Optimizer

[attcan!utzoo!henry at uunet.UU.NET]

>v1.2 of f77 (which is the current one) has a very large number of
>improvements over early releases. Since you are still running 3.5, I
>assume you are running f77 1.05 ... which is a serious mistake. 
>
>If you want good performance from Sun compilers you should go with the
>latest release of sunOS...

We want good performance from Sun compilers.  However, we also want a
reliable and memory-economical kernel, which prevents us from going with
any of the latest releases.

If Sun wants to sell compilers, it should release the current compilers in
a form that is runnable on pre-4.0 systems.  (I assume that the binaries
on a 4.0.x tape are not.)

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu