Re: Timestamp vs Date/time Decimal fields, Overhead in RPG programs... -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Timestamp vs Date/time Decimal fields, Overhead in RPG programs...
From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:38:17 -0400
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Simon,

You may want to test this out for yourself....

But my testing showed significant slow down when calling an ILE
program vs. an OPM one.

I'll look for the details tomorrow...a quick serach of the archive
didn't turn them up.

Charles

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This sounds much like the old "external program calls are slow" issue.
They were on early CPF but they got much better on later releases and
a side effect of the introduction of ILE was to reduce the external
CALL code path thus improving its performance.

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