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wbmw, I wonder how practical are any Fortran benchmarks. This language is retired and for retireds, though there are huge computational libraries still around. What percentage of SPEC scores are C and what Fortran? Can one bad Fortran score kill the whole result?

As far as I know those languages, it is simpler to make well optimized C compiler than Fortran one. And it is simpler to write a program, which will be properly optimized, using C. The whole idea of Fortran benchmark is showing how small the market of those applications that are performing in line with SPEC is. I'm sure that any reasonable 3D-volume modeling menchmark on C will show better with 64 bits.