RE: How are CPU Speed and Overall CPW Related?

Nathan M. Andelin said:

>It takes 2095 MS to run the RPG code on my AS/400.  
>But it only takes 365 MS to run the Foxpro code on 
>my Laptop.  The Foxpro program offers 5.74 times
>better performance.  But Foxpro is not faster than 
>RPG.  The difference is in the computer hardware.

Hi Nathan!  I'd like to suggest that the difference is in the hardware AND
the software.  If you want to see the AS/400 do string handling faster, try
using VARYING on your string declarations.  We had a thread on this very
subject in the RPG400-L list.

Remember that RPG was originally designed to line columns up nicely on
reports.  When writing in "legacy" mode (no VARYING), you are using
fixed-length fields, not "strings" like other software platforms (C, Java,
Foxpro!)  To do meaningful string operation comparisons, use VARYING to
create RPG strings.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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