True we still need to code logic for length zero, which is another vote for MVCL in my mind.
Roops On Wed, 20 Aug 2025, 05:56 Robin Vowels, < 0000192a91cf023e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > On 2025-08-20 05:57, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > Back in the 1990s I was using an inline > > > > EX_ME MVC DEST(*-*),SOURCE > > EX R0,EX_ME > > because our per4mans guys said branching around the MVC cost more than > > moving the 1st byte twice, while storing the MVC elsewhere might slow > > data > > cacheing. > > You'd need a test and branch to deal with a null string. > >
