I have now  converted the search clause processing to  assembler too. It takes
6.6 seconds of  CPU time to execute  a "Search frecp11 in  BITEARN" (where the
2.5 megabytes  of BITEARN  NODES have  to be read  in, upcased  and searched),
instead of over 5 minutes (--> HX :-)  ). Since there is a lot of I/O involved
in the  process (actually the search  time is less  than 10% of the  total CPU
time), it takes about 15-20 seconds of wall clock time but this is still quite
acceptable. A side effect of this assemblerization is that the CPU limit is no
longer enforced on the search command, as it would take too much time to check
it out periodically :-)
 
  Eric