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At 14:24 11/18/1998 , Rob Berendt >> I strongly agree with Hans. We did specific performance testing on this >> function in RPG III, and found it to be 48 times more expensive from a CPU >> perspective. >> >> Al > >Does this mean that 400 has some extremely weak mathematical processing, or >is it just the compiler that is badly written? Neither imho. The overhead is caused by exception processing due to numeric overflow conditions. RPG can cause them to be ignored, but the low level code still must (and should) signal them. Intentionally causing numeric overflow to occur is not a good idea in any language. The date conversion multiplier trick takes advantage of a peculiar RPG behavior that is not consistent with "good programming practice". Pete Hall peteh@inwave.com http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/ +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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