Re: Named indicators (was DOW vs DOU)

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:39 AM 5/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-05-27 20:21:14 EDT, you write:
>
>> Have you ever run a performance comparison on multiple SETOFs versus a
>>  single MOVEA?  A test in RPG IV setting off a block of indicators 50,000
>>  times resulted in the following times:
>
>Who cares?  Readability, maintainability, understandability!!!
>
>If I never again have to pour through calcs thinking "OK, now what sets 29?
> No setons, no results - hmmm.  Here is a movea to *in,20.  Is it long enough
>to affect 29? No? well here is a movea to *in,15 and it is a 16 char field so
>it might set 29 depending upon its 15th postion.  Now what affects the 15th
>position of the 16 char field that....." ever again I will pay the
>.00000000000000000001% of the total lifetime processing power of our 400 that
>is utterly, flagrantly, WASTED by using seton.


True wisdom!  Make the code readable, and don't bother with shaving
nano-seconds off of operations that can be executed 50,000 times in under a
minute.   

>
>Just my $.02, Lance

Ah, but worth so much more.

jte
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