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Re: "Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

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On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:37:07 -0600
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> The world’s two biggest computing constraints in 2025"
> 
> "Quick quiz: What are the two biggest constraints on computing growth
> in 2025? What’s in shortest supply?"
> 
> "Take a moment to answer that yourself it before reading on…"
> 
> — — —
> 
> "If you answered exactly “power and chips,” you’re right — and in the 
> right order."
> 
> This is why I want to convert my calculation engine from Fortran to
> C++. C++ has won the war for programmers.
> 
> Lynn
> 

That does not follow.
You are converting from one fast compiled language to another fast
compiled language. That is not going to make your program more
power-efficient or more silicon-area-efficient.
If anything, out of the box Fortran is more optimizible than C++.
In order to gain near-parity with Fortran one has to use non-standard
dialects of C++, like  'g++ -ffast-math'.

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"Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-30 19:37 -0600
  Re: "Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI" 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2025-12-31 04:21 +0100
  Re: "Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-12-31 15:40 +0200
    Re: "Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-31 14:26 -0600

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