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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore
>
> Tom Marchant writes:
>
> >I seriously doubt that TRTO is faster than 50 compares on a modern
> >superscalar processor. I hope you mean faster by a factor of 10x,
not
> >by a factor of 10k. The latter is absurd, the former unlikely.
>
> in response to my
>
> >. . .; and it speeds up the execution of these applications
> >enormously, often by a factor of more than 10k (sic).
>
> Now 'sic' literally means 'thus' in Latin, and its standard
> use in English and other European languages is to mark text
> that might otherwise be thought to be corrupt as correct and intended.
>
> . . .
>
> Mr. Marchant has a controversial style that is at once naif,
> uninformed and rudely combative. It dismembers straw men
> from an assumed posture of unique virtue. Disagreement, even
> strong, vigorously expressed disagreement, are staples here.
> His modus operandi is not, need not and should not be.
>
> Moreover, he is comnpulsively loquacious about too many
> topics. Justice Holmes said that five generations of cretins
> were enough; and five all but vacuous posts in the 'moving
> LOADxx' thread already this morning are too many.
Rarely is a fire quenched by adding fuel.
-jc-
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