Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(zoned & signed goes back to the days of punch cards.  A column punch was
zoned" if the top three rows had a punch. The top three rows were the zone
rows - row 1 was A-J, row 2 was K-S, and a row 3 punch was the rest of the
characterset.  If I am a bit off please forgive me  -  that was 30+ years
ago.)

Leif, I believe your comment that signed fields take much longer, but 10
times longer?  oh gosh...  That is huge.  Did you save the metrics?


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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2002 08:20:03 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
> > > > From: Booth Martin

> > > > > Leif, would you try one more thing since you are already there,

> please?

> > > > > What happens if you define it as 14S 0 and 15S 0? Does packed vs.


yes, signed (aka zoned) is 10 times slower than packed.