Re: Array efficiency (was:Dynamic Arrays)

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Could you go in to more details?  There are folks I know that would love to
improve response times by adding memory.  Why hadn't their salesman
suggested that instead of recommending a new and larger box?

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2002 01:22:43 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Array efficiency (was:Dynamic Arrays)

Not necessarily. Creating a memory rich environment and using SetObjAcc
to keep things in memory is not so outlandish. SetObjAcc can make a huge
performance difference. If that's critical, well...

Gary Guthrie


Booth Martin wrote:
>

> wow. wow. have you heard any results? That sounds like a really naive

> solution to a very complex problem.



Rob wrote:

> I have heard several times lately about companies buying huge quantities

> of memory for their iSeries in an attempt to load their entire database

> into memory to speed access.

>

> Now, whether they are using arrays or some other method of paging in the

> entire database is a different issue.


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