Re: Programming Performance

Erick

At 10:43 AM 5/26/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>Recently, I read an article that suggested that using a return in an RPG
>program would improve system performance simply by staying resident in
>memory during the job stream. 
>
>If this is the case, would all the data areas and work variables have to
>be reinitialized?

The key point here is that you have not turned on *INLR. Then your data,
file cursors, etc., remain in the state they were in when you exited.

One detail: Things done in *INZSR (and initialization, as in data
structures, I think) are not repeated when the program is called again.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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