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  3. December 2005

RE: Usage of Indexes and its Effects on an RPG Program

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 16:49 -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "In my opinion, there should be..."

What I've seen is many folks bash READE, and recommend replacing it with
a READ + test, with only anecdotal evidence to back up the claim that it
runs faster.  I've at least bothered to write test code that shows that
in this one circumstance, they operate in very close to the same amount
of time.

Since I have no access to the source code for OS/400, I can only do my
best to devise a fair test program, run it, and interpret the results.
I also try to use my experience as a developer to hypothesize about how
another programmer might write the function(s) in question.

Regards,
Rich

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