Re: speed of setll vs chain -- RPG400-L

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Len,

At 5/19/01 02:17 PM -0700, you wrote:
>If the record is not found, a chain is faster than just a setll when there 
>is more than one key because the computer can quit looking sooner.  I 
>discovered this the hard way.

  I'm not sure that the issue is whether there are multiple keys or not.  I 
think that there is a big performance hit if there is an indicator 
specified on the SETLL and the key value is higher than the highest value 
in the file.  This was researched a while back by Richard Jackson.

  -mark

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