Re: Fortran Users! Is there a better way to do this?

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Gerhard Postpischil
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> On 5/15/2010 4:20 PM, Ron Hudson wrote:
> > What I am doing now:
> >
> > an array(5)
> > a pointer = 0
> > loop
> > increment pointer
> > fill array(pointer) with next calculated result)
> > if pointer = 5
> > print array on a line of the page
> > zero pointer
> > until done calculating
> > if (pointer .ge. 1) print array(1 - pointer)
> > ...
> >
> > Is there a better way?
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> About the only thing that would be (slightly) more efficient
> would be to use a single array large enough for all values, then
> use a single WRITE at the end. That supposes you have enough
> storage available to keep all values. If not, use an
> intermediate array size that's a multiple of 5.
>

Like perhaps a pages worth?


> Gerhard Postpischil
> Bradford, VT
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