| Richard 2007-09-14, 3:55 am |
| On Sep 14, 4:02 pm, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...@nospam.netcom.com>
wrote:
> And one final note, Robert never claimed that Micro Focus documented Indices as
> faster than Subscripts (for their product). He only included this as a "legacy"
> belief.
It may well be that on particular machines with particular
implementations the indexes _are_ faster. Users of those systems,
whether they be 'legacy' or not are not 'believing in a myth'.
For the rest, Robert never established that it is actually "widely
believed" and certainly not 'wrongly believed', merely asserting it to
be so in order to denigrate the "Cobol community" by implying that
they are too stupid to test it.
Of course it is possible to make subscripts slower by, for example,
having them as display, or indeed other than comp-5. It may well be
that in 'legacy' versions of MF, such as Level II which had index but
not comp-5 the so-called "myth" was completely true.
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