Re: CALLP vs CALLB vs EXSR

I did some tinkering with CALLB vs CALLP related to a web application.  All
I can tell you is before, using CALLP, the response time to get the page up
was 15 seconds or more.  After changing to CALLB, response time dropped to 5
seconds or less.  I don't know just what the he*& was going on with the
difference between callp and callb, but it sure made a HUGE improvement.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@Midas-Kapiti.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 10:33 AM
Subject: CALLP vs CALLB vs EXSR


> We've just been having a conversation here about the relevant
> performance of prototyped and non-prototyped procedures.  It seems that
> some of my colleagues did some benchmarking while I was seconded to
> another department.
>
> They discovered that, for the same function, processing large volumes of
> data, coding subroutines performed significantly faster than procedures;
> but also that non-prototyped procedures using CALLB were faster than
> prototyped ones using CALLP.
>
> I'm not surprised by the former, but I'm astonished by the latter.  Why
> should this be so?
>
> I wasn't involved in the testing, so I can't give you much more info; I
> should add, though, that we're at V4R3, and everything would have been
> compiled without optimisation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin.
>
> --
> Martin McCallion
> Midas-Kapiti International
> Work:  mccallim@midas-kapiti.com
> Home: martin.mccallion@ukonline.co.uk
>


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