# 060. Many compilers evaluate ALL(x==y) efficiently with short-circuiting
topic: {ref}`arrays`
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For a code that evaluates ALL(x==y) with a short-circuiting function and the intrinsic, gfortran, ifort, and nvfortran seem to short-circuit the intrinsic, so it may be OK to use ALL for large expressions.
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