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>I am not sure that optimization in today's C compilers are yet up
>to the level that FORTRAN attained, but I am convinced that we
>will be there again soon.

I would not be so sure. In fact, it is almost certainly impossible.
The presence of pointers in C and the lack of prohibition 
on overlapping array subsection function arguments prevent certain
optimizations that are standard in Fortran.

Doug McDonald