RE: You know, I'm pretty sure it's zoned... -- RPG400-L

Subject: RE: You know, I'm pretty sure it's zoned...
From: "Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:12:07 -0600
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> you must have had a different machine than me... <VBG>
> No, the choice of packed decimal is a 38 thing. Again historical. The
38 had
> a decimal processor and performed best with packed decimal arithmetic.



And as our good friend John Sears once said: "Rochester couldn't build a
fast CPU until they brought in the engineers from Austin".

So are Packed Fields still faster performers than say Int's on this new
hardware?

Bob Cozzi

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