<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Maintaining understandable and readable code is often more important that runtime efficiency. Like others have said, there are likely many additional places you can address overall efficiency before dealing with these calculations.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Doug C.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra_hr" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:52:12 -0500 <b>James Richters via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org></b> wrote ---<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px;" id="blockquote_zmail"><style>div.zm_5031794952015826952_parse_7049566231838070789 a:link,
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}</style><div style="" class="zm_5031794952015826952_parse_7049566231838070789"><div class="x_-776510783WordSection1"><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="">Sounds to me that if the compiler will probably insert temp variables anyway, then I might as well make my own and make it easier to understand later.</span></span></span><br></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style=""> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="">James</span></span></span><br></p></div></div>_______________________________________________ <br>fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org <br>https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal <br></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>