RE: What are the benefits of ILE?

Its still faster.  No matter if it's a nano second or a minute.  Sure, 100
records won't notice.  But, throw a million or more records at it, you'll
notice it.  

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Jin [mailto:brucej@MRC-PRODUCTIVITY.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: What are the benefits of ILE?
> 
> 
> 
> >But with a subprocedure you gain speed, ease of use, and are 
> able to group
> >your procedures into "libraries" or service programs.
> >
> >Also, Calling a program you cannot return a value and 
> simulate a BIF as you
> >can with subprocedures, which makes code much more readable.
> 
> 
> Agreed.
> But I would question 'gaining speed'. Assuming subprocedure 
> is 10 times
> faster than a dynamic program CALL then a 10-nanosecond  program call
> becomes 1 nanosecond in subprocedure call. This change is not 
> noticeable in
> interactive applications and in most batch applications where the same
> program is call for, say, only a few thousand times. Besides, 
> if we exclude
> the time spent on resolving calling procedure/program, the 
> execution time
> may be the same for both. This means that a 10-second run 
> program will only
> become a 9.99-sencond run procedure.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 
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