Out of curiosity.
I see that Cobol V5.2 (and up) is making use of decimal floating point instructions instead of traditional instruction a lot. For example, a MOVE from a binary number field to a character field is done with CZXT decimal floating point instruction. Is the performance of floating point instruction so much better today? I seem to remember that floating point instructions had not been the fastest in earlier times and machines (I may be wrong with this). Opinions? -- Peter Hunkeler
