But maybe I was always wrong.
Maybe it was to give a faster path to generation (0) which would probably
be the most oft retrieved generation.
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:30:49 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: GDG Question
> To: [email protected]
>
> > I spent a *lot* of time in the microfiche, reading the CVOL code. Whatever
> > the reason was for concatenating the generation data sets in reverse order,
> > I don't think it was for performance.
>
>
> Been there, done that! I always assumed that the complementing of generation
> numbers was *specifically* to achieve the reverse sequence returned in
> GDGALL.
>
>
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