Re: RPG/COBOL/C

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Vining wrote:
> When I hear John Sears I think Database and when I hear RPG/COBOL 
> performance differences in the context of Database, I seem to recall a 
> time long, long ago when COBOL had the option to work with Database 
> records directly out of the blocked IO buffer where as RPG always worked 
> in move mode, moving the records to local variables.  I have no idea if 
> this is still true.

Ah, that makes sense.  The best RPG can do is to move directly to/from a 
data structure, but that's not as fast as working directly with the I/O 
buffer.