In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/14/2005
at 08:07 AM, Martin Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Oh boo hoo! If you're afraid of the -potential- for errors, you're in
>the wrong business.
Au contraire, if you're indifferent to the possibility of error, then
you're in the wrong business. The issue is risk versus benefit, and
when there is essentially no benefit then it doesn't take much risk to
make it a bad idea.
>The extra overhead for non-IEFBR14 steps is two instructions, CLC
>and BC.
Maybe, but don't count on it. The smart money says that you aren't
aware of what would actually have to be changed, much less what it
would cost.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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