Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?

Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?.
From time to time I read that Fortran is or can be faster then C for heavy calculations. Is that really true? I must admit that I hardly know Fortran, but the Fortran code I have seen so far did no…

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