Efficiency of Bound vs. Dynamic Calls

[Norman.Rae@xxxxxxxxxxx]

     Hello all

     I'm sure this issue has been covered here before, but as a newbie to
     the list, I'd appreciate any help.

     At my current place of employment they have created an ILE-RPG program
     to handle date manipulation, and standards state that this program
     must be used or all date manipulations.

     From OPM programs (which most of them still are), a regular CALL with
     parameter list is performed.  However I was surprised to see that in
     new ILE-RPG programs, they were still using a regular CALL.

     I suggested that a CALLB (bound call) would be more efficient.  They
     agreed, but stated that a dynamic call to an ILE program was quite
     efficient, so much so that making it a bound call would not gain
     enough to make it worth while dealing with the additional
     complications that this would entail.

     This didn't seem right to me, but I don't have any information to back
     me up.  Anyone got any thoughts on this matter?

     Thanks ....Norman


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