RE: char to numeric

Yes, it is a batch process.  It is a lot faster than what I have
imagined.  Yes, a few seconds doesn't seem much.  However, the program
has more than just one line of code :).

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rory Hewitt
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: char to numeric

Lim,

Given that your original message talked about performance being critical
and there being millions of records, it would seem that speed isn't
really much of an issue after all - just in testing, you've done this
conversion 10 million times and it's only added between 8 and 12 seconds
to the overall processing time... Does a few *seconds* either way make
much of a difference
- I could see it maybe mattering on an interactive application, but I'm
guessing (hoping, really) that you're not processing this many records
on a regular basis in an interactive application anyway!

Rory


On 3/2/07, Lim Hock-Chai <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oops.  Thanks for catching that.  I also notice that in the atoi 
method, I declare the num as 10s 0 instead of 10i 0.  Redo and rerun 
and result are below

%dec takes 8 secs.
%int takes 12 secs.
atoi takes 8 secs.

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