Re: Ugh.

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <cobol400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: Ugh.


> basically agree, of course. I haven't look for a while, but
> last time I did, it normally doesn't pay to use binary because
> they are converted internally to/from packed, such that
> ADD 1 TO W-BIN
> results in:
> CONVERT W-BIN TO PACKED-W
> CONVERT 1 TO PACKED-1
> ADD PACKED1 TO PACKED-W
> CONVERT PACKED-W TO W-BIN


and her I can only assume that you are looking at OPM code, not ILE. My
experiences with ILE point to MUCH faster string and binary handling. Simply
checking an old COBOL program for non-85 constructs and recompiling as an
ILE program, have shown somtimes as much as more than 400% performance
improvements in these areas.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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