Re: RPG IV Performance

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David/Lisa,

>It sounds like he was comparing an plain observable OPM program to a ILE
>program will all debug views included (which includes full source for a
>program so you can debug it without having the original source code
>available).

And not only that, but the increased size of debug views doesn't even affect
normal performance.  The debug view data is kept in separate pages, and unless
you are running under debug the *only* difference (as I understand it) is in
DASD size.  On the systems where I've worked, the DASD swallowed up by
application data dwarfs the program libraries, even in RPG IV with *LIST debug
view, so the extra size for debug views is a great asset for debugging while not
really adversely affecting DASD usage.

And in the specific case of triggers, I can't imagine a preference for RPG III
over RPG IV.  Without pointer support I think you'd be hard pressed to make a
trigger which ran faster in RPG III...

Doug
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