Tore,

>Please pardon me for jumping in. This is not a remark to you, but to everyone who has contributed to this thread.
>
>I am totally amazed about the energy someone can use to save a few nanoseconds. How many thousand years must you use your applications to earn back the amount of time you have spent on this extremely important optimizing problem? <vbg>

Oh I agree wholeheartedly. In actual apps one has to temper the amount of time spent optimizing code vs. the amount of time it takes to do the optimization vs. the amount of time it will save the endusers over the lifetime of the app.