On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, R. Allan Reese wrote:
> I am constantly reminded of the days when users would insist on switching
> off array and overflow checks in the Fortran system, so "the program will
> run faster and not give any error messages."
>
Ah, the good old days when people worried about the speed of their
code rather than just waiting another month for the next generation
of processors to arrive.
Colin
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