Re: Ending a program from within a procedure

On 7/26/05, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> A *NEW activation group ends as soon as the program that created it ends.
> So, if you compile your RPG program with ACTGRP(*NEW), the activation
> group (and everything in it) will be destroyed when your program does a
> RETURN (no matter if LR is on or off)
> 
> That's why everything gets cleaned up when you haven't turned LR on.


That makes sense. I can see where using ACTGRP(*NEW) is bad for programs 
that are called multiple times (once per record, etc). 

Let me ask you this. If you have a program, say an inquiry program. This is 
called by a user, and is an interactive inquiry, that optionally generates a 
printout. A user may call this program several times in a day, but it would 
never be called repeatedly, in a loop. If I create this program using 
ACTGRP(*NEW), each time the user exits the program, cleanup of open files, 
storage, etc. is automatic, and occurs regardless of LR. If I create the 
program in a named activation group, then will subsequent calls to the 
program perform better than subsequent calls to a ACTGRP(*NEW) program?