> FORTRAN is still king of speed (which I'll need all I can get of) but is a pain to write
I'm surprised that, with the restrict keyword, one would see better code gen from Fortran than C. Isn't the lack of aliasing Fortran's primary advantage?
Leveraging "restrict" is not a trivial thing to do.
If you're a researcher first and a software developer second (which I suspect is true of gp), the last thing you want to do is get into the weeds of inspecting gcc assembly to figure out where you didn't put a "restrict" that you should've.
I'm surprised that, with the restrict keyword, one would see better code gen from Fortran than C. Isn't the lack of aliasing Fortran's primary advantage?