On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >Thanks to all for your thoughts. > >And especially to David for doing a quick test for me. > > I honestly cannot believe that people are still 'optimising' CPU.
Why not? I really cannot believe that a person's attitude would be "who cares?". If I can do something in multiple ways, then I just consider it normal to want to do it as well as I can. Professional pride, I guess. I'll admit, in this application, it won't make a tinder's damn. But I still care. I don't want to be accused of being a bloated Windows programmer! <grin>. > > Unless you call major chunks of CPU-intensive code, you are not going to > find enough savings to buy a beer. Diet coke for me, thanks! <grin> > > I/O, even with today's faster hardware, is where you should be > concentrating. Especially, on non-Mainframes. - Too busy driving to stop > for gas! > Agreed. I/O is far more of a bottle neck than CPU. Especially went I'm mainly reading and writing. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
