On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:59:33 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: >On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:04:51 +0200 (CEST), in bit.listserv.ibm-main >Nomen Nescio wrote: > Hoo dat!?
>>This gets back to what I said. PERFORM is net 5 instructions more *per PEFORM* >>than two GO TOs (to and fro) so loops processing millions of records get very >>expensive fast and avoiding GO TO by being forced to use PERFORM causes you >>to create more loops ... > I'm just sitting here trying to imagine what significant fraction of the time required to "process [a] record" is 5 instructions. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
