instructions? >BUT the resulting reduction in customer CPU utilization would >cannibalize the additional hardware sales that would have been made when >customer work volume increases, making the hardware side of the house >*very* unhappy... > >Reducing customer CPU utilization likely loses IBM more money than it >makes them, so guess what priority optimal code generation is likely to >have?
I can guarantee you that we are not considering those factors when deciding how to spend our development dollars in IBM COBOL compiler development. Rewriting compiler backends to re-implement stuff that already works costs money while our customers who want to use their COBOL code as Web Services would languish without XML support. It is just weighing one requirement against another! Performance improvement is always on our 'list', though rarely requested by our paying customers... Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
