On 3/9/2012 1:13 AM, Jake anderson wrote:
yes scott but particularly for COBOL statement since we dont have STROBE installed.
I have a stop-watch macro and subroutine I use to get comparisons for assembler code. I've found it necessary to repeat instructions anywhere from 10K to 1M times in order to get useful values; and at that, they are not repeatable (about 10% difference) due to pipelining and variable system load. I suspect that unless you use the full resolution of the clock, you may not get meaningful figures, and the overhead for calling and executing TIMEUSED may invalidate your results. At a minimum, call the subroutine twice (start and stop) to get a feel for the overhead without any code execution. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT
