Those aren't the only options, and unless the program was going to be a real CPU hog I would probably ask what code sequence will be the easiest to maintain.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 10:57 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: CLI vs. TRT Given several target characters, at what value of "several" is the break-even between TRT and a chain of CLI; BC? (It's probably model-dependent.) The CLI chain might be optimized by CLI first for the median value and using the outcome to bypass half the remaining tests. -- gil