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  • Subject: Re: Named indicators (was DOW vs DOU)
  • From: cmassoglia@xxxxxxxxxxx (Charlie Massoglia)
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 01:36:05 -0400

>
>
>Could the movea be an addr based move vs having to resolve the addr or
>move of a constant not being addr function based??
>
I have no idea.  How about anyone else?
>
>On Tue, 27 May 1997, Charlie Massoglia wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this is a dup message.
>> 
>> James Kilgore wrote:
>> 
>> >BTW I have never understood the expensive use of MOVEA to turn
>> >indicators off or on when you can't get any clearer then an explicit
>> >SETOF or SETON.  In an earlier post abount scanning for indicator
>> >useage, you would never find the indicators being turned off/on with a
>> >MOVEA. 
>> >
>> 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:
>> 
>> SETOF 20,21,22  SETOFF 23,24,25 .......    16 seconds
>> MOVE *OFF *IN20, MOVE *OFF *IN20.......    16 seconds
>> EVAL *IN20 = *OFF, EVAL *IN21 = *OFF...    16 seconds
>> MOVEA OFF20 (named constant) *IN,20....     9 seconds
>> 
>> The MOVEA is the most efficient method to turn off a block of indicators.
>> Of course my first test of 500 times and my second test of 5,000 times were
>> not enough to detect the difference.
>> 
>> 
>> Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
>> PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
>> 517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net
>> 
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