On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:20:10 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote:

> (...which would somewhat speed up your compiler listing on impact printers).

OK, I'm intrigued - why do the zeros speed up printing?

The only thing I can remember about speed and impact printers is that the
bidirectional ones would usually optimize out the end of the line movements
but not always the start-of-line ones.. is that related?

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