SPEED Measure the speed of reading and writing FITS files. Create a large FITS file to test FITSIO SIZE / ELAPSE= RATE (Mb) (sec) (Mb/s) Raw Fortran Writes (2880 bytes/record) 36.00 0.90 39.91 Raw Fortran Reads 36.00 0.61 59.21 Write 3000 x 3000 row I*4 image ( 20000 pixels/loop) 36.00 1.25 28.75 Write 1250000 row x 2 col BINTABLE ( 6840 rows/loop) 10.00 3.35 2.98 Write 100000 row x 2 col ASCII tab ( 4209 rows/loop) 1.30 3.26 0.40 Read back I*4 image ( 20000 pixels/loop) 36.00 0.89 40.54 Read back Binary table ( 6840 rows/loop) 10.00 3.04 3.29 Read back ASCII table ( 4209 rows/loop) 1.30 3.77 0.34 STATUS = 0 STATUS = 0 STATUS = 0 SPEED Normal end of execution.