How are CPU Speed and Overall CPW Related?

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

Nathan, while I doubt it will erase all of the time difference, the code in
your example is not doing anything like the same thing.

Change theShorter to a constant and replace the %Trim with a simple Eval or
move with pad and then you've got a closer match.  The way it is right now
the Foxpro should be treating theShorter as a constant and there is no
trimming going on anywhere.

Another RPG alternative would be to set a variable called space up (50 long
initialized to blanks) and then substring that onto a constant.  Which is
much closer to what you are doing in FoxPro.

One more option would be to run the optimizer on the RPG code - it may
eliminate some of the code.

None of this matters worth a darn though because real programs don't simply
wizz round in circles doing nothing.  CPW is intended to be a measure of
the overall "real" workload the system can handle.  That includes User I/O,
disk access, etc.  which on a 400 is mostly carried on by secondary
processors and not by the main CPU.  If I have a lot of users, an
additional IOP will probably improve the throughput of my system without
any change in CPU.



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