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Gordon Henderson wrote:
...That's not been my experience - certianly not with mixing FORTRAN and C. I can not imagine anything more horrific than taking an array of data in C, converting it into some textual XML representation, calling a FORTRAN subroutine which would then convert it into binary data again, process it, then convert it back to XML for the C code to manipulate again.
...I tend to agree but then if done properly it does avoid reading the wrong 16 bits of a 20 bit floating point number which is a lot worse on a running service.
But you'll actually find that something similar happens almost every time you call a web page!
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