RE: **Debug options**

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow.  I just wrote two ten line programs that initialize a one byte
character variable ten times.

The RPGIII program compiled *srcdbg is 49152 bytes, compiled vanilla 40960
bytes.  The RPGIV program compiled debug view *all is 98304 bytes.

Sounds like something that you can't ignore completely.  OTOH, what we do
with in house mailing list processing has a more dramatic effect on disk use
than the proverbial infinite number of monkeys, uh programmers, could have.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: **Debug options**
>
>
> Originally, RPG IV program objects were at least 4 times the
> size of the
> equivalent RPG III program object.
> That was in 1995 when DASD was low volume and expensive.
> Today, they've bettered that ratio a bit, but you still will
> end up with
> an RPG IV program nearly double the size of the RPG III
> equivalent. And
> that's after you omit debug info and then remove observability.
>
> If DASD isn't an issue (as it isn't in many installations today) don't
> waste your time worrying about it. If you're at 95% of DASD
> utilization,
> and most of your DASD use is in application programs written
> in RPG IV,
> then you can worry about it.
>
> Bob Cozzi
>