Re: Service Program Overhead

David,
I figured it had been discussed before, but I couldn't seem to find
anything. Not that I searching the correct terms mind you ;-)

I'm not doing anything funky in my programs. In fact, I don't turn on LR in
any of the programs. All service programs have an activation group of
*CALLER and the the main program has a *NEW activation group (which is why I
don't turn on LR).

I'm simply reading through a table, chaining to two other tables, escaping
any quotes in the strings and writing the data to a stream file.

I just ran the program twice, once in batch once in interactive, and it took
about 3.5 minutes. Not a lot, but it's about twice as slow as processing in
Java. I just thought it was odd.

Here is a link to some of the supporting code,
http://code.midrange.com/eb5a4923cc.html.

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:55, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm sure there is SOME overhead in calling a procedure in a service program
... but it's negligible at best (I'm pretty sure this has been discussed
here or in MIDRANGE-L before).

The majority of code I write these days is almost 80% procedures in service
programs ... and I haven't had a performance problem at all.

Are you doing anything funky in the service programs ... reclaiming
activation groups, setting on LR, etc?

How is your service program defined as far as activation groups? *CALLER,
named, *NEW?

david

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