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Re: COBOL
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:45:52 -0600
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Tracy Pierce ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: per my fuzzy memory, indexing is faster because the indices are stored as
: addresses, and incremented by sizeof(element), as opposed to not-indexed, in
: which case you manipulate your own integers, then convert to addresses as a
: result of dataname(subscript).  should be MUCH faster.

No, on PA-RISC we assumed that multiples are fast so indexes are the same
as binary subscripts.  It made everything much easier and thats probably
why you can now display them.  :-)

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