mloc version 11 is a major update to the software that has been in progress since March of this year. I have done a considerable amount of testing and I’ve been using it for recent calibrated clusters uploaded to the GCCEL database. I’m no longer finding (m)any bugs with the way I typically use it, but several other people are using mloc for rather different studies however and they may well uncover a few more bugs that need attention. I expect to declare this version ready for release in the next month or two.
The main advantage of version 11 is the management of memory, which is much more efficient now. As a result the limitation that previously existed on the number of events that can be in a cluster has been lifted. I have made runs with clusters of over 500 events and one of the current users is running clusters approaching 1000 events. Of course, these runs still take a lot of time, and careful analysis of such large clusters is very time-consuming. The other main advantage of version 11 is not evident to the user, but very useful for the developer: placing all subroutines in Fortran modules and getting rid of large named common blocks in include files to handle global variables.
One known issue that I will try to resolve before release of v11 is the annoying discovery that the scripts it produces for plots are in some cases incompatible with GMT v6.5. For the time being, GMT 6.4 or below must be used.