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Conversion Costs
This example demonstrates costs for type conversions in assignments and operand positions.

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The program calculates the relationship between the costs of a conversion from type n to i and the costs of a direct memory copy from type i to i . The conversion is much slower than the unconverted copy, which can be seen directly in the assignment. The difference is not so clear in an operand position (here when specifying the index of a READ statement). This is because the conversion costs are not as high as for a table access.