Kyle Mandli

The difference when the calls were in the inner-most loop was significant. I am guessing that `ifort` can optimize across these calls and `gfortran` cannot. There are more tests I...

Completely agree with Donna, I would suggest never using something like that in an inner-loop. I would hazard a guess that although the fortran compilers may be theoretically able to...

That's also a great answer, really gets into the nitty-gritty details.

I second this, flagging seems a bit more complex than it should be from an algorithmic standpoint. I did not realize that regions are checked twice though, isn't this due...

Oh I see what you mean now. I was thinking of `allowflag` which also checks the region.

Note that the Python version that read topography allows for setting the fields directly. We may either want to have a list of traditional values or allow an input that...

For the record I think (1) will be the easiest to implement but perhaps not the most elegant, (3) would be great but I have not come up with anything...

@aks2203 can you copy your comments you made in #271 to this issue to continue the discussion?

Couple of other thoughts: - The primary idea here would be to move the call to `update_gauges` to after `stepgrid` is called. We should also add `update_gauges` to also hit...

This needs to be checked to see if this works now.