In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/30/2006
at 02:30 AM, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Maintaining/replacing ad hoc code of this sort is a nightmarish job.
> Replacing all of it with a single reentrant assembly-language
>subroutine (and, usually, several different 64-kibibyte tables
>because different 'lines' may do business in different states) makes
>this job tractable; and it speeds up the execution of these
>applications enormously, often by a factor of more than 10k
>(sic).
Why can't you use a single 64 KiB table and a smaller table for each
LOB, indexed by the output from the State table?
--
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.
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