Re: Packed vs Integer (Was RE: V4R5?) -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 2:17 PM -0500 4/13/00, Bob Crothers wrote:
>Or is it more like: Packed is faster than zoned, but binary/integer is
>faster than packed?
>
>When did this change?

Bob,

    This is the way its been as long as I can remember.  All of my 
(really) old MI stuff uses binary fields for math.

    Binary support in OPM RPG was NOT faster; however, it was way 
slower.  Check out the generated MI for binary field math and you'll 
see why immediately.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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