Robert Prins wrote:

>Can anyone skilled in the art tell me why a compiler that probably dates back 
>to the late 1970'ies or early 1980'ies generates the following short and sweet 
>code for a PL/I "BY NAME" assignment, while the not completely new (but still 
>fairly recent) version of Enterprise PL/I (V3R9) generates the very, very, 
>very long-winded code below it?

I'm not skilled in this art, but is your Enterprise PL/I (v3r9) also using 
Language Environment or not? 


>Then again, I always thought that the fastest instructions are those ones that 
>are never executed...

Those instructions don't need to be optimized... :-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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