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belteshazzar wrote:
> 
> Unfortuantely this is an optimisation and actually doesn't occur with
> optimisation off. (I just ran a test program). I'm told that due to
> the significant performance hit of the array initialisers when
> optimisation is turned off we can't use that.

If your compiler passes a 10,000-component array by copy at any optimization 
level, then you have a very poor compiler. If your vendor won't fix this, I'd 
recommend using another compiler.

And I'm sure everyone here would appreciate knowing what compiler this is, so we 
can avoid it.

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Jeff Carter
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Dr. Strangelove
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