Yes Pr1me had a few other tricks as well. One useful item was that any Pr1ME Information "client" session only ever had ONE remote process when accessing over Pr1menet, and the process was kept alive as long as you had an active remote lock.
As a result, the overheads of starting a remote process repeatedly could be avoided by reading ONE record on a remote file with LOCK and hanging onto the lock like grim death. Hum.... Don't get me started on Pr1me Information catalogued program Garbage Collect. Getting GCI at release 6 was fantastic (I was at the launch in Copenhagen - Dennis Beldotti [ organiser ] and Bent Pristed [ host ] I seem to recall). And what hosts !! Regards JayJay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony W. Youngman Sent: 24 January 2008 22:41 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Universe 20.1 itype perf enhancer In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >The performance gains by this technique can be immense, especially on >UV (that seems to have a little more overhead than UD in opening >files). Regardless of the platform, the less code executed in each >iteration, the more efficient the program. Pr1me was apparently especially notorious in this regard ... in fact I believe that's where the technique came from. If using INFORMATION, this trick would speed programs up noticeably. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'Yings, yow graley yin! Suz ae rikt dheu,' said the blue man, taking the thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998 Visit the MaVerick web-site - <http://www.maverick-dbms.org> Open Source Pick ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
