RE: timings. sub proc returns varying string.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Hans Boldt

>The bottleneck is the RETURN statement. Unfortunately, W-Code
>doesn't recognize varying length character as a distinct data type,
>since W-Code represents a fairly low-level machine model. As a
>result, your procedure PTESTFUNC1 always returns 32002 bytes and
>your procedure PTESTFUNC2 always returns 12 bytes, regardless of the
>actual meaningful length of the return value. In all other places in
>the language, we can deal with just the exact number of bytes we
>need to, but RETURN has to copy all of the bytes of the variable.

>Bummer, eh? The lesson is to declare your string procedures with
>more modest return value lengths.

Thanks Hans.

Steve

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