RE: ASCII/EBCDIC Conversion

David,
I quite agree.  I will optimize all and put on to our dedicated transaction
processor when we go live.  What is "caching of variables" or "profiling"
and how?  I never heard of these terms before.  I am on V3R7M0.  Are they
something new?  I have tried several ways to perform the conversion from
ASCII to EBCDIC, of which the call to qdcxlate seemed the poorest performer.
I am now coding the code page APIs which was recommended off line.  I will
let you know how that is.  The ILE environment is extremely new to this shop
and me.


Thanks for all the help,


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-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris [mailto:dmorris@plumcreek.com]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 1:44 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Conversion


Christopher,

I can't say what the fastest method is, I think you will have to do some
testing 
to make that determination. A message to this list from Bruce Vining sent on

8/19 lists several options. However, there are many techniques that can be 
employed to speed up code.  These include caching of variables, setting 
access, optimization, and profiling. Because timing is critical in your 
application, you will need to do more than simply find the best algorithm.
You 
need to ensure that system resources are available when you need them 
which is not really an RPG question.  You will want to ensure that your 
conversion job has adequate resources and that those resources will not be 
stolen by another job.

David Morris
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