[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <004a5c02$0$32494$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Here is a question.
> 
> Going back to all mighty Microvax II and before (especialy late 1970s
> computers) when code efficiency was necessary:
> 
> 
> in a loop to scan through a string, you would have:
> 
> Null terminated:
> 
> (while *ptr) do { something; ptr ++ ; }
> 
> 
> Counted string:
> 

   Or you could use a single instruction.