Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

Nat and Buck,
Adding 'varying' is a departure from the specs. I want to get a 50-char
result. But you are quite correct that if people didn't blindly used
fixed size strings things go faster.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan M. Andelin <nathanma@haaga.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:57 AM
Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400


> By adding the Varying keyword to "TheShorter" declaration, the performance
> doubles.
>
>
> > Leif
> >
> >      Any idea how much slower this would be in RPG?
> >
> > d TheString       s             50
> > d TheShorter      s             50    inz('TEST STRING')
> > d Nbr             s              6s 0
> >
> > c                   do        100000        Nbr
> > c                   evalr     TheString = %trim(TheShorter)
> > c                   enddo
> >
> > c                   return
> >
> >
> > Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
> > Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
> > AS/400 Professional Administrator/MSE
> > Client Access Specialist
> > http://www.cm-inc.com/
> >
>
>
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