• Subject: Re: Date * 10000.01
  • From: Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:14:00 -0500

someone wrote:
>Does this mean that 400 has some extremely weak mathematical
>processing, or is it just the compiler that is badly written?

No to both questions.  Decimal arithmetic is slow on
any hardware.  Multiplication is bad, division is even
worse.  Best to use integer or unsigned datatypes
whenever possible.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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