"fwrite" seems very slow

[Edward C. Jones]

Why does it take about .76 secs for this octave program to run?

    a = zeros(256, 256, "double");
    f = fopen("mess", "wb");
    fwrite(f, a, "double", [256, 256]);
    fclose(f);

The following piece of Python(!) is 300 times faster:

    s = (256*256*8)*chr(0)
    f = open('mess', 'wb')
    f.write(s)
    f.close()



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