RE: Web apps on the AS/400

Leif, I thought the shorter string isn't known at compile-time? Or is this
merely to avoid hard-coding lengths?  In any event, try adding the VARYING
keyword to your string declarations in the RPG program.  You'll be
astonished.

On my box Type 9406 model 620 prc grp P20 fc 2179 1024 meg rel V4R4M0, I
get:
MI: 1.57
RPG fixed: 3.01
RPG varying: 0.22

No programs optimised, all submitted to batch, non-dedicated but not heavily
used.  Time to write the code, approx. 5 minutes - I have a performance
bench template I drew on as a skeleton.

Buck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard 
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 9:21 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Web apps on the AS/400
> 
> > These blanket statements are hard to accept at face value.
> > The only way to verify this is to solve the same string problem
> > in different languages and them to time the following things:
> > 1) how long did it take to solve the problem
> > 2) how fast does it run. (do it 100,000 times)
> > 
> > So here is a sample problem:
> > 
> > Given a string of length 50, move a shorter string to it,
> > e.g. "test string", finally right-justify the string, so that it
> > now holds:
> > "                                       test string"
> > The shorter string is not known at compile time.
> > 
> > Once we have a solution to that in several languages
> > we can make meaningful comparisons. If the language 
> > or a subroutine library already has a function that solves
> > the problem, you are not allowed to use it.
> > This later restriction is somewhat dubious: imagine
> > you had a language that had a built-in solution to
> > every problem your are likely to encounter, it is
> > hard to disqualify using it.
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