XPost: comp.lang.asm.x86, comp.lang.pl1   
   From: robin51@dodo.com.au   
      
   "glen herrmannsfeldt"  wrote in message ne   
   s:hsq2kv$4gt$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
      
   | For alphabetsize of 32 or less, that is, values 0..31, and if I   
   | did it in C, I would probably use the one bit per 32 bit word   
   | storage, which makes testing fairly easy using & and |.   
   | As far as I know, PL/I BIT(32) doesn't have the optimization   
   | that uses a 32 bit word,   
      
   It does if it's unioned with a 31-bit FIXED BINARY.   
      
   | and UNSPEC is likely even worse.   
      
   Did you try it?   
      
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