Michael Stein wrote on 9/6/2023 3:45 PM:
[...] PL/1 F level subroutine calls did a getmain/freemain for each subroutine call. Too much overhead to call even one subroutine for each of 30K records on a 360/91 & MVT.
Well, my recollection is that if you had only Static storage, no Automatic storage, it didn't do a GETMAIN. Or was that an enhancement in the new PL/I compiler? Was that PLIX? Yeah, not using stuff for decades can cause memory fade.
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