(j3.2006) [Fwd: Fortran 2008 query]

[Bill Long]

> On Oct 26, 2017, at 2:58 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> We could say that it is a processor-dependent value greater or equal to 1023.
> 
> Ridiculously small.  Why design a language for machines that were obsolete twenty years ago?  We should be designing for the future, not the past.

You mean the real future where the amount of memory/core continues to decline, and where broadcasting the executable out to all the participating processors becomes slower as the size of the executable increases (because of initialized arrays)?    The better option in cases like this is usually to read the data in from an unformatted file when the program starts.  Maybe just to image 1 and broadcast it from there. 

Cheers,
Bill


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