Ilya Zakharevich writes: : GRommel@sears.com writes: : > in a register anyhow; and (d) any gain in speed that comes from using a register : > is probably tiny and must be weighed against the reduced readability. : : The trend is to trade readability to performance, especially for so : trivial topics as this one. That's fine by me. That was a very ancient optimization for a particular architecture that most of you aren't using any more. LarryThread Previous