On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:22:33 +0000, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Snip! > >I did not respond to Tom Marchant's response to my OP because, after one set >of exchanges with him that generated much more heat than light, I judged >that another one would be at least equally unlikely to shed light on this >issue. The flame is unnecessary. You claim that the use of translate performs better than a series of tests and I questioned that. Translate is a millicoded instruction and it has a long startup time. Your ad hominem attack is totally unnecessary. Perhaps you are referring to the discussion last July regarding sequence numbers? In that discussion, you repeatedly made the assertion that sequence numbers were obsolete, yet you failed to make a convincing case. As I recall, you resorted to personal attacks in that discussion also. > additional flames snipped... > -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
