the need for speed

[HwaRangRon@xxxxxxx]

I came away from one of Jon's sessions at Common with the distinct impression 
that every subroutine should be changed to a sub-procedure. I think I heard 
him say that, but I probably misunderstood (as usual) what he was saying.

I was reading the manual this morning and came across this:

QUOTE:
Each character in the string is converted to a two-byte hexadecimal 
equivalent using the subroutine GetHex. 
Note that GetHex is coded as a subroutine rather than a subprocedure, in 
order to improve run-time performance. An EXSR operation runs much faster 
than a bound call, and in this example, GetHex is called many times.
:ENDQUOTE 

Anybody care to comment. Procedures over subroutines. Mix and match like 
everything else? Best tool for the job, or follow the procedures?

Ron


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