I think this used to be hardware dependant and amount of data moved.  Mvcl
is interruptible. One product used to use a macro which checked a flag to
decide whether to use mvcl or mvc loop.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 20:28 Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:

> @Kirk: +1
>
> @Shmuel: you know that an MVC loop is dramatically faster than MVCL?
>
> Surprising but true.
>
> CM
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:40:52 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
>
> >I'm leaning towards SRST/MVCL.
> >
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> >It appears to me that your requirement matches the C function below. (?)
> >I would probably just use C/C++, but you can see what the IBM C/C++
> optimizing compiler generated.   It seems unlikely to me that there is a
> significantly better way.   You might ask on mvs-asm370.
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