Recent content by blbelson

Appreciate all the responses. The portion of code in question was just one step in a very lengthy problem. I am quite pleased with the improvements you all have helped me achieve - over 50% faster on the one subroutine which was called over 12,000 times. The changes have moved my dissertation...

Thanks Mark 44, I believe the compiler simply skipped the loop when I commented out the line since the loop served no purpose in that instance. I was afraid I'd have to tackle the problem in the way you suggested above but I took a hybrid approach and wrote a subroutine since there are quite a...

I have experienced a serious program execution slow down and traced its source to one calculation...pseudo code below: do a=0, 360, 10 do b=0,85,5 do c=0,360,10 do d=0,85,5 bunch of calculations involving double precision real variables (stored in variable ele)...