ILE performance considerations

 >> Unless you're IBM and then it seems you have the unfair advantage of
being able to share activation groups across jobs...

While it is true that IBM has access to shared AGs, many developers wish
they had never been invented!

I had a discussion with Jing Wang from Rochester (the current ILE owner)
about 18 months ago and asked if shared AGs would ever be released to the
user community.  Her take at the time was that she thought it unlikely and
that if she had her druthers the darned things would be yanked from the OS
because they have caused major problems in most of the system components
that have used them.  If I remember correctly, the delightful debugger
problems that a release or two back forced you to log off/on in order to be
able to debug the procedure you were actually using (!!!) was a result of
the use of the very feature you lust after.  Be careful what you ask for -
sometimes you get it!!

Just out of interest, what do you think they would buy you?

Jon Paris
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