Fortran - Re: Bounds Check Overhead

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Re: Bounds Check Overhead

robin

2006-05-27, 7:02 pm

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> Bob Lidral <l1dralspamba1t@comcast.net> writes:
>
>
> In Ada one should where possible use the 'Range attribute:

Ideally yes, but in practice, such as in sorting and averaging,
the loop is often one or two short of the number of elements in the array.

> for I in Some_Array'Range loop
> Process (Some_Array (I));
> end loop;
>
> where I _can't_ exceeed the bounds, so it would be surprising if a
> compiler inserted bounds checks.

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