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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:54:39 -0700
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/27/24 13:43, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Cobol was also very portable.
>>> 
>>> As long as your destination compiler supports COMP-3.  :-)
>> 
>> Or your source computer didn't have COMP-3, or if you didn't use it.
> 
> I was once called in to optimize a CPU-bound COBOL program.
> The genius who wrote it declared all subscripts as COMP-3.
> Changing them to COMP-4 knocked 30% off the execution time.
> 

BTDT. That’s why I always believed all programmers should have some
knowledge of the underlying machine architecture.

-- 
Pete