Surprising comments coming from someone who has spent years in the
area of performance.   

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:08:06 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>Because some people actually care about speed of execution and CPU time.
>
>How often do you run this to the point that it makes a difference?

Often enough. 

>
>>z9 cycles don't come cheap.
>
>But, optimising a few batch copies doesn't save much of that.
>

So you know my shop and how many times we execute IEBCOPY? Optimizing
a few lines of code doesn't matter either... unless you execute it
thousands of times.    

>>Those of us trying to blead every mip
>
>MIPS is not a plural; MIP is not a singular
>

yeah, yeah...whatever. 

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