Using PI on a 750 or 2750 - we had arrays that were up to a thousand elements long. And the performance impact was VERY noticeable when switching from dynamic to dimensioned.We are faced with this same situation and the thought behind this truly baffles me. Why take a flexible, dynamic database system and force it to be fixed length. This is what you are doing using dimensioned arrays and MATREADs. The most common justification I have heard is performance and this simply doe not hold water. I started in Pick in R83 and have never used a dimensioned array to hold record structure and I have not seen performance issues. This to the extent that we ran an MRP run on a 286 Wyse PC that choked the mainframe at this company.
And then later, programming UV on an EXL7330, many's the time I've taken a slow program that heavily manipulated dynamic arrays, converted it to dimensioned, and watched it fly. One particular case, I think I reduced run-time from 20 to 5 minutes.
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