https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91030
David Edelsohn <dje at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|enhancement |normal --- Comment #3 from David Edelsohn <dje at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Conversion carries an overhead, but the overhead need not be worse than necessary. The conversion overhead for libgfortran is significantly worse than for competing, proprietary compilers. -fconvert=big-endian relative to no conversion Compiler Slowdown -------- -------- GFortran 1000% IBM XLF 200% Intel Fortran 20%