int vs binary questions

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

is there a dds equivalent to "10i 0"?

I ran a timing loop that copied between 10i 0 and 9b 0 variables. here are
the results:
  bin to bin was the fastest.
  int to int was 10% slower than bin to bin.
  bin to int took twice as long as bin to bin.

any idea why bin to bin runs faster than int to int?

The practical side of this is that I have gotten into the practice of
declaring all integer type variables as 10i 0. But when I have to store such
a field in a database file, I dont know the best way to declare the database
field.

-Steve