Re: Integers outperform Packed in a big way -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Integers outperform Packed in a big way
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:56:34 -0800
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DeLong, Eric wrote:

Regardless, there has never (to my knowledge) been a hardware BCD
processor in the i platform.... IBM optimized the system to prefer
dealing with packed, but it is a software implementation....

Remember, the original IMPI implementation of the AS/400 was on a CISC component CPU. It could (and presumably did) have hardware or firmware implementations of whatever the hell IBM Rochester wanted.

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RE: Integers outperform Packed in a big way , DeLong, Eric

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