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From: yuval@taux02.DdCl (Gideon Yuval)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: more about division
Message-ID: <237@taux02.DdCPo
Date: 5 Nov 88 07:08:48 GMT
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Reply-To: yuval@taux02.Dderl (Gideon Yuval)
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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In articleDe62amesaquintus.Dderl@ ok@quintus () writes:
>I mentioned that one of the things you need for COBOL is fast text->binary
>and fast binary->text conversion ... (No big deal; all
>it takes is tables and a twisted mind.)  I haven't done the 32-bit version
>yet, but I have done a 20-bit one (generates 7 digits).
>		Fast	Slow	Slow/Fast
@MC68020		15.6	76	 4.9	

Could the source-code for  these  conversions  be  posted?  if  the  job  can
really  be  done  to  Cobol specifications, it would affect quite a few CISC/
RISC arguments running around. The size of the  tables  required  may  affect
the  argument;  the  twistedness of mind will not -- the end-user doesn't get
to see it.




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