------- Additional Comments From Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de 2005-03-04 10:47 ------- This is really _very_ inefficient, by a factor of 20.
Some test numbers: $ g77 write-record.f $ time ./a.out real 0m1.819s user 0m1.774s sys 0m0.044s $ gfortran write-record.f $ time ./a.out real 0m43.723s user 0m9.003s sys 0m34.571s $ cat write-record.f program main integer n parameter (n=10000000) real a(n) write (10) (a(i),i=1,n) end $ gfortran -v Using built-in specs. Target: ia64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-4.1-20050227/configure --prefix=/home/zfkts --enable-languages=c,f95 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.0 20050227 (experimental) By comparison: $ ifort write-record.f $ time ./a.out real 0m0.117s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.116s -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16339