Date performance

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>> We then modified the test program to use 8 digit packed numbers to
represent the dates.

An alternative might be to continue to use dates, but to have them in the
same format and re-map the fields as character.

i.e.   D CharDate                    10   Overlay(RealDate)

There was some talk of improving this kind of date performance by doing
byte-level compares rather than date to date - any comment on that Hans ?


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