My own experience has been much more mixed, but I'd like to accept, in order to address what I take to be a more important issue, that Peter Farley is right when he says
<begin snippet> My prior experiences in replacing MVCL/CLCL's with multiple MVC/CLC's and even MVC/CLC loops for "small" areas (FSVO "small") is that MVCL/CLCL loses almost every time. </end snippet> Preoccupation with these issues is, at best, counter-productive. The MVCLE is logically simpler and should be used unless one knows that one has only some fixed, small number n << 256 bytes to move. No one has ever claimed that the timing differences here are large, significant ones; and the continuing preoccupation here with suboptimizing of this sort is, I think, evidence of a pervasive malaise, a retreat into the familiar that precludes consideration of more, much more, important design issues. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
