RE: Multiply Versus Divide

Bill,

This is probably one of those cases where the effort exceeds the benefit.
Unless you're running this calculation on a massive scale, you'd probably be
hard-pressed to justify a x nanosecond improvement in performance.  

I fall into the "make it maintainable" camp that would prefer legibility to
performance.  

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill [mailto:billzbubb@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:23 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Multiply Versus Divide



rob=tksaTn4SAz0AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'll give it to you in /free; you convert it to semi free.
> /free
>        WorkDate = (((NbrDate / 10000) - 3) * 10000) + 101;

Does anyone else, besides me, try to use multiplication wherever they can
instead of division?  Is it still a performance consideration when dealing
with a "large" number of calculations?

WorkDate = (((NbrDate * .0001) - 3) * 10000) + 101

Bill


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