Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Greg Day" <greg_day@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think they're trying to work out how long a piece of string is.


>From: "John Taylor" <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
>Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:06:26 -0700
>
>Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder these tests are supposed to 
>prove?
>You're comparing 150's to 170's to 270's etc, all with various (unnamed)
>processors and active workloads. One guy does the RPG version on "System 
>A",
>another does the C version on "System B", and so forth. What use could such
>results possibly have?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>John Taylor
>Canada
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hall, Philip" <phall@spss.com>
>To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 15:42
>Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400
>
>
> > in ILE/C approx 20 min per pgm, submitted to batch on a 170...
> >
> > > problem 1)
> > > 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.
> >
> > String before : '                                                  '
> > len(50)
> > Before : 985035538.499776
> > After  : 985035538.878712
> > Diff   : 0.378936
> > String after  : '                                       test string'
> >
> >
> > > problem 2)
> > > Given a string char(50), replace all
> > > EMBEDDED spaces with underscores,
> > > but leave leading and trailing spaces alone.
> > > E.g. "     this is a test      "
> > > should become   "     this_is_a_test      "
> >
> > String before : '                this is a test                    '
> > len(50)
> > Before : 985035524.11432
> > After  : 985035524.590832
> > Diff   : 0.476512
> > String after  : '                this_is_a_test                    '
>
>
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