Re: free form alternatives?

["Joep Beckeringh" <joep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This week I made some changes to a large four screen update program.  A few
years ago, on a CISC machine, compiling this program, which produces a 140
page compiler listing, would take almost an hour.  This week I exited SEU,
changed to another session displaying my spool files, pressed F5 to see the
listing, pressed F5 again and it had finished.  No, I am not really worried
about the difference in cost between MOVE and %editc.

Oh, and why do you think %editc is more complex than %char?  I would think
that %char has more work to do.

Joep Beckeringh'


----- Original Message -----
From: <nb@unitessile.it>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:09 PM
Subject: RE: free form alternatives?


>
>
> >> There are two ways to do this today.
> >> 1) Use %CHAR()
> >> 2) Use %EDITC with the "X" edit code.
> OK for %char(), but isn't %editc() a little bit expansive in term of
resource???
> I mean, %editc() seems a lot more complex than the simple MOVE or the
%char()