Re: Accessing Database vs Dataarea

Here you go.

Physical File



A R AAR

A*---------------------------------------------

A FLD1 3

A FLD2 15

A FLD3 50



Logical File



A R AA1R

A PFILE(AA)

A FLD1

A FLD2

A FLD3

A* Key fields

A K FLD1

A K FLD2



Data Area

Data area . . . . . . . : APSYSELGA

Library . . . . . . . : QGPL

Type . . . . . . . . . : *CHAR

Length . . . . . . . . : 1

Text . . . . . . . . . :



Value

Offset *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5

0 '1'



RPG



FAA1 IF E K DISK

D elg S 1A dtaara(APSYSELGA)

DTS S 10

DTS1 S z

DTS2 S z

*

C keyaa1 klist

C kfld fld1

C kfld fld2

*

C eval TS1 = %timestamp()

*

C do 1000000

C eval fld1 = 'CMS'

C eval fld2 = 'CMSMMR'

C keyaa1 Chain AA1

C If not %found(AA1) /* put this in to ensure
the record was found */

C 'NF' dsply

C endif

C enddo

*

C eval TS2 = %timestamp()

C eval TS = %Char(%diff(TS2:TS1:*s))

C TS dsply

*

C eval TS1 = %timestamp()

*

C do 1000000

C in elg

C enddo

*

C eval TS2 = %timestamp()

C eval TS = %Char(%diff(TS2:TS1:*s))

C TS dsply

*
C EVAL *Inlr = *On



On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Mark S Waterbury <
mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Vinay:

I would like to see the source of your "benchmark" tests accessing a
data area vs. a record in a file, so that I can run the same tests, to
compare results, etc.

You could post that benchmark source to http://code.midrange.com and
then include the generated "link"in a reply to the list, so anyone who is
interested in reproducing your results can see the source you used,
for an "apples-to-apples" comparison.

Thanks

Mark

On 4/21/2017 5:42 PM, Vinay Gavankar wrote:

Hi,

We have a program where same record of a 'control' file (input mode) is
being read for every iteration, and I thought that replacing the 'Chain'
with reading a dataarea.

So I ran a simple test to compare the time taken to read one record in
file
100,000 times and reading a data area 100,000 times with 'IN' statement.

I was surprised that the file was read under 1 sec, whereas dataarea took
around 4-5 seconds.

Just to make sure, I looped for a million times. The file came in at 4
seconds and dataarea at 47 seconds.

I was wondering whether I am missing something or accessing a dataarea
with
an 'IN' statement takes that long compared to file read.

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