Fortran to Python

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Sat Jan 5 05:36:44 EST 2008


-On [20080104 19:21], Dennis Lee Bieber (wlfraed at ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>	If the FORTRAN is using single precision reals, I'd expect a
>slow-down in Python just on that alone, as Python uses doubles as the
>only float type. There is also the overhead of object access for each.

In this case it uses complex*16 and real*8. Is a real*8 a single precision
real?

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