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The same problem occurs with the operator[] in the STL map and hash_map, where the lack of a default value means one has to use a more complicated sequence of operations if no insertion is desired.

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...²

The deviation from the STL-style iteration is essentially just a matter of convenience. As our iterators must be classes by other reasons, the exclusion of pointers poses no problem here.

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... v0.5.24³

This is certainly not the best available F77 compiler; however, tests on a SUN Ultra (where KCC was not available to us) using the SUN F77 compiler showed the same ratios between F77 and gcc performance.

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... SIZE="-1">normal()):⁴

The ratio increased to about 1.4 for small grid sizes

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