Re: Reason for allocating memory

["Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wait. If you have a much-used program, that uses an array, for example, say
len(5000) (to match, say a record format, yes, we've got 'em, you too
probably), and depending on selections this can go anywhere from zero or one
to maybe a 2 thousand, go dim(2000), now you're using 10 meg of CPU. Say
you're getting twenty users signed on at once. Wouldn't this be a reason? Or
why not?

I know the scenario is an exaggerated stretch, but please humor me, as I
remember thinking sometimes in a case like this I might want to allocate
memory this way.. This is not to detract from the thrust of your point,
which seems to be that they trying to duplicate C-functionality into RPG.

Come to think of it, why is it in C?

--Alan




----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Houchin" <justin@RELIATEK.COM>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: RE: Reason for allocating memory


> So if I understood you correctly, allocating memory is related to the
> "C" programming language?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:50 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Reason for allocating memory
>
>  >> Could someone tell me the reason they would dynamically allocate
> memory.
>
> Because while at least trying to produce a working example in RPG, the
> people who wrote it were completely clueless about the language and
> effectively translated C logic into RPG wherever they found a matching
> function.
>
> I hate to say this because they are on of the few groups in the whole of
> IBM
> that realize that we don't all program in C but ....
>
> There is no reason why a regular RPG variable 256 long could not be used
> instead of the method they used.  Same applies to a whole bunch of other
> allocations and similar silliness.
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
>
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