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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:43:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:38:38 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> 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.

Did you just change

   DEFINE TYPE COMP AS COMP-3

to

   DEFINE TYPE COMP as COMP-4

and that would take effect everywhere that COMP was used?

Oh, wait, COBOL didn’t have typedefs ...