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I think of the BLAS algos as being very Fortran friendly, and the Fortran references never _out_perform the C implementations. (The asm implementations are of course the best.)

Be curious to know what you're thinking of here.

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I've no personal experience, but people historically point to pointer aliasing as the primary thing that speeds up Fortran code vs C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_aliasing

No personal experience either but discussing with people invested in high perf C, they said that `restrict` was enough to avoid aliasing issues.

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