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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
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Subject: Re: Slow Fortran I/O
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Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 15:10:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  3 15:10:42 1984
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> This isn't Fortran's fault, it's the I/O library! There is no good reason
> for Fortran I/O to be any slower than direct system calls (except for a
> small amount of overhead related to library table maintenance).

I'm not sure about this. Surely interpreting formats at runtime slows I/O a
lot. It could be possible to compile the formats, but Fortran also allows
you to read the format at run-time, so you still need your format
interpreter around. Does any Fortran compiler compile formats?

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam. steven@mcvax