L.S., As Dorit indicated - it's better to perform vectorization experiments from the autovect branch.
Further data on this with respect to the HIRLAM code base will be based on builds off the autovect branch. Kind regards, -- Toon Moene - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - phone: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands A maintainer of GNU Fortran 95: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/