Fortran Main with C I/O

[Alex Martelli]

joe at hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Joe Dellinger) writes:

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>	OK. Are we really a special case? Is there anybody else out there
>that writes Fortran mains but uses C to do the I/O? If so, let me know, so
>we can make a case to them not to do this!

We also use a lot of C routines for I/O within a mostly-fortran
framework!  Particularly because this can speed up I/O from 50%
to 2000% (NOT a misprint - 20 times!) on Unix, OS/2, and Apollo;
apparently the Fortran I/O model mismatches these machines and/or
is too general for efficiency, while with C we can special-case
optimize what we really need, and FLY.  You have my full support!!!

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