Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

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At 09:09 PM 11/28/2002 -0500, Booth Martin wrote:

>(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.)               Row 1  A-I (Plus  values)  Row 2 J-R (negative
>values)  Row 3 Q-Z ( I don't recall)
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>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-------
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>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.
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>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.
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>yes, signed (aka zoned) is 10 times slower than packed.
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