RE: Critique requested for my first MI program

correct on both points. If the constant already has the full length
of the field no extra code is generated for the pad, so there is
no penalty.
It is not run-time performance I was referring to but
human maintenance time. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhandy@isgroup.net [SMTP:dhandy@isgroup.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:01 AM
> To:   MI400@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Critique requested for my first MI program
> 
> Leif,
> 
> >One subtle point: instead of the string "-  " with two spaces
> >it is better to use a compare with pad:
> >CMPBLAP(B)   OPCODE,"-", " "/EQ...
> >that makes your code easier to maintain.
> 
> In that case the string with the (now full length) three character
> compare value would also need CMPBLAP(B).  So does that imply that
> CMPBLAP is always "better" to use when comparing with constants?
> 
> I'm assuming here that if left without the pad and OPCODE was later
> expanded to a longer length, that CMPBLA(B) ...,"SUB" would then match
> any string which began with SUBxxxx.  Correct?  I gotta get myself one
> of those MI Reference manuals...
> 
> Back in the days when I did assembler on some other machines, I'd
> consider the instruction timing differences.  Today I can't imagine it
> should justify a second thought from a performance standpoint.
> 
> Doug
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