Re: Multiply Versus Divide

Scott Klement wrote:
>> My experience is like Bill's.  If the program is a heavy hitter and
>> you can easily keep DIV out of the code its worth it.

> This means that if you had code that does ONE MILLION divides, you
> would waste about 14 seconds.
>
> It's definitely not worth making your code harder to read to save 14
> seconds per day in some big million record processing batch job.

While I agree with the statement about not making code harder to read, I
will disagree that the code is harder to read just because it uses Multiply
instead of Divide.

> In any application you write where you "save time" by using MULT
> instead
> of DIV, I can almost guarantee that there's something else in that app
> that's wasting more time than the difference between MULT and DIV.

Maybe true, but I think time should be saved wherever it makes sense.

Bill