RE: An introduction to MI by example II (part B)...

[Leif Svalgaard <l.svalgaard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess it was from excitement. Sorry.

>  >> Jon, would you share some of the actual FIGURES?
> 
> Why are you shouting?
> 
> I said I'd "seen" performance numbers - not that I had developed any
> myself.
> Among other places, these have been published on the Java list right here
> on
> Midrange, in News/400, and in Midrange Computing. Was it Joe Pluta who
> wrote a
> range of tests? I can't recall.
> 
> I think even the most favorable Java figures (and most of them were I/O
> oriented
> since that's what we want the AS/400 for) indicated that RPG outperformed
> Java
> by quite a wide margin. That of course means that MI would do even better
> <g>
> 
> Anyway, you don't use Java for performance reasons.
> 
        [Leif Svalgaard]  Except that is what Blair was advocating.
I quote "Now, though, if you really want your logic to scream out 
loud, write it in Java.  Java, with its pristine lack of ugly pointers, 
gets to exploit features of the AS/400 that other HLLs can only 
dream of.  (Calls use the machine stack, and pass parameters 
in <shudder> registers... Ooooo...) 

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        I've heard an ugly(?) rumor that IBM might artificially slow down
RPG
        (using the same kind of governor that slows down interactive jobs on
        a server box) to make Java look better...
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