C gcc versus Classic Fortran fastest performance

How the programs are written matters! Always look at the source code.

If the fastest programs are * hand-written vector instructions, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in the less optimised programs — more seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* C gcc #6	2.14	19,704	1582	8.43
* C gcc #4	14.04	19,704	1190	14.03
C gcc #5	7.29	19,704	917	28.25
C gcc #3	36.80	19,704	574	36.79
Classic Fortran	38.89	19,644	608	38.88
C gcc #8	39.33	19,492	483	39.32
C gcc	39.61	19,704	514	39.60
* C gcc #2	10.19	19,704	1563	39.99
Classic Fortran #3	10.34	19,644	1164	41.22
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* C gcc #9	2.10	19,772	1639	2.10
* C gcc #4	4.05	19,772	1398	4.05
Classic Fortran #6	4.22	19,644	1530	4.22
C gcc #6	4.97	19,772	1186	4.97
C gcc #2	5.19	19,772	1270	5.19
C gcc #3	5.23	19,772	1214	5.23
C gcc	5.23	19,772	1179	5.23
Classic Fortran #2	5.38	19,644	1507	5.38
* C gcc #5	5.43	19,772	1436	5.43
Classic Fortran	5.44	19,644	1400	5.44
C gcc #8	5.54	19,492	1193	5.54
Classic Fortran #5	6.05	19,908	1669	6.04
Classic Fortran #4	6.18	19,652	1183	6.18
Classic Fortran #3	6.33	19,900	1311	6.33
C gcc #7	6.89	19,772	1250	6.88
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* C gcc #6	0.40	19,772	1203	1.59
Classic Fortran #2	2.67	19,652	520	2.67
* C gcc #5	0.72	19,772	576	2.85
* C gcc #7	0.72	19,772	906	2.85
* C gcc #4	0.72	19,772	1145	2.85
Classic Fortran #3	0.72	19,652	644	2.85
C gcc #8	5.40	19,772	389	5.39
C gcc #3	1.43	19,772	470	5.70
* C gcc #2		Make Error
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* C gcc #6	1.28	33,400	1147	5.10
Classic Fortran #7	1.42	75,676	965	5.62
C gcc #5	1.63	33,512	788	6.31
Classic Fortran #6	3.27	79,872	669	10.81
* C gcc #4	3.52	33,060	805	13.89
* C gcc	3.49	32,864	828	13.92
* C gcc #7	3.51	33,276	1000	13.95
* C gcc #3	3.53	32,860	769	14.09
C gcc #9	4.07	33,128	700	15.70
C gcc #8	25.15	19,496	412	25.15
Classic Fortran #4	10.39	79,616	626	26.81
Classic Fortran #5	45.21	43,520	528	45.21
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
C gcc #3	0.78	19,772	1469	0.78
C gcc #5	1.24	19,616	1286	1.24
Classic Fortran #4	2.06	19,644	1355	2.06
C gcc #2	2.77	19,772	1299	2.76
C gcc #6	0.94	19,772	1936	2.78
C gcc #7	0.82	19,772	2276	3.24
C gcc	3.70	19,772	1213	3.70
Classic Fortran #3	6.42	19,644	1217	6.42
Classic Fortran	6.85	19,644	1193	6.85
C gcc #8	8.06	19,776	839	8.06
C gcc #4		Make Error
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
C gcc	3.84	130,408	1512	12.45
Classic Fortran		Make Error
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* C gcc #7	0.44	499,992	1899	0.59
C gcc #9	0.48	500,032	1551	0.76
C gcc #6	0.96	675,260	828	1.36
C gcc #5	1.53	994,108	654	1.53
C gcc #2	1.06	994,536	757	1.58
* C gcc #4	3.70	500,452	716	3.69
Classic Fortran	4.22	986,300	1026	4.22
Classic Fortran #2	42.39	769,748	778	42.38
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
C gcc #2	1.53	169,284	816	4.18
C gcc #3	1.96	134,540	842	4.70
Classic Fortran #2	2.17	140,416	1155	6.84
C gcc #8	21.08	285,544	607	21.08
C gcc	21.67	264,244	660	21.67
Classic Fortran	31.78	525,824	780	31.77
C gcc #5	8.77	351,332	914	31.93
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
C gcc #2	0.74	19,772	422	0.74
C gcc	0.74	19,772	459	0.74
* Classic Fortran #4	0.88	19,652	987	0.88
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
C gcc #5	0.81	152,500	1403	2.03
* Classic Fortran	0.95	180,044	2229	3.12
C gcc #2	3.21	103,288	1121	3.21
C gcc #4	0.97	152,264	1237	3.28
C gcc #3	1.72	103,736	1273	3.31
C gcc	gcc (Ubuntu 14.2.0-4ubuntu2) 14.2.0
Classic Fortran	Fortran Compiler Classic 2021.12.0 20240222