Norman Gray, 10 March 2003
Minor edits, plus repackaging
Added a pointer to Peter Flynn's Beginner's LaTeX
Norman Gray, 22 July 2002
Minor edits for clarity, and to restore missing references.
Paragraph transformed into section
Norman Gray, 16 July 2002
Minor edits -- typos and enhancements spotted now and again.
Hoisted the Java section up a level, and added some remarks about efficiency and profiling.
Added a reference to the Adam Lewenberg book pointers
Norman Gray, 1 December 2001
Slight reworking after comments
Mention that x.ne.x is true when x is a NaN
Reworking of this section after comments from BS; added VALD and Dusty links.
Norman Gray, 4 December 2001
Update to IEEE trap details
Added table of compilers and enabled IEEE traps
Added download URL
Norman Gray, 2 December 2001
Updating, link-checking, general refreshing.
Norman Gray, 2 December 2001
Updating, link-checking, general refreshing.
Added more vi URLs, caught typos
Added a brief description of the format of doubles
Mention of SUN/209 in the context of dynamic memory allocation in Fortran.
Pointed out that JITs make Java a candidate for high-end codes, pointing to the Java Grande Forum for details.
Checked fwrite/fread syntax, and discussed unformatted IO in Fortran.
Advice to use prototypes, to avoid another class of silly errors; added all-warnings switches for Sun and Compaq.
Expanded this section considerably, with several more links.
Longer discussion of the GPL and other free licences.
Added CONVERT example, and added pointers to FITS and cfitsio.
Pointers to the LaTeX project, other tutorials, and the TeX FAQ. Some reorganisation.
Added islittleendian example program
Replaced with expanded/corrected program, which also deals with doubles.
Norman Gray, 20 June 2000
Incorporating comments from others.
Expanded the description of vi
Added pointers to Fortran standard document.
Added a description of Java's model of compiling to interpreted bytecodes, to the extent that this relates to efficiency and speed.
Added pointer to the Schwartz reference, and a description of Perl's compile-then-interpret model.
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CRewritten following comments
Updated/corrected comments on page faults by adding MBT's comments on cache faults.
Added remarks and examples on raw IO
Mention speed tradeoffs, following comments
Norman Gray, 14 June 2000
Conversion to SGML
Norman Gray, 22 December 1998
Last LaTeX version
Norman Gray, 22 December 1998
Last LaTeX version