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Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

From: Booth Martin <Booth@MartinVT.com>
>  Leif, would you try one more thing since you are already there, please?
> What happens if you define it as 14S 0 and 15S 0?  Does packed vs. signed
> make a difference?
>
> And thank you for doing that test.  I've wondered the same thing for a long
> time now.

no difference as internally they are stored the same way.
BTW, the difference is a lot less than the factor of two we used
to have on the CISC machines.

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