[AccessD] Long vs. Integer WAS: Global Variables

>I wonder why Arrays are slower with Longs....interesting.

MAYBE memory packing - 2 integers per word but only one long per word.  It
would take twice as long to read it from main memory into the on chip cache
and twice as long to write it back out to main memory.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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I wonder why Arrays are slower with Longs....interesting.

Drew

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my figures on a P4 1.6ghz pc (win2k sp4)
16bit No Array 7609
16bit Array 16750
32bit No Array 5297
32bit Array 20891