RE: Death of the RPG Programmer

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following is probably even less meaningful than normal benchmarking,
but...


Last year we did some very simple testing on CPU bound stuff (do some array
manipulation in a loop 100,000 times) comparing various levels of Java
optimization against RPG  on the 400 and for the heck of it, C on a PC.  As
I recall, RPG was more than 10 times faster and less than 100 times faster
than Java at level 40 optimization.  The same thing in C on a pentium II 333
was not quite as fast as RPG on the 400, a 510, but still significantly
faster than Java. 

We aren't planning on switching our nightly batch processing to Java real
soon.  OTOH, you can do some nice screens with Java and it will run in a
browser.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:26 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Death of the RPG Programmer


At 09:50 AM 06/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:

When you listen to IBM talk about our awesome Java Performance on the 
AS/400, and how they benchmark it against everything else under the sun (I 
could have chosen to use a capital "S", but decided to be more generic.), 
what you don't hear them talk about is how well Java performs compared to 
RPG.  RPG, for traditional processing, knocks the socks off Java, but IBM 
is scared to say so.

If IBM ever chose to market the AS/400, they would not only devastate the 
remainder of the computer industry, but also the remainder of IBM, and they 
know it!

Al


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