Meanwhile, IBM spends considerable effort in optimizing its C/C++
compilers. Customers with C and C++ applications have more alternatives
to Big Iron.
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
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Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was
Re:
Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?
<Snipped>
I'll bet I could rent some nice office space and hire a small team of
superprogrammers for that same money, PLUS have enough to pay a modest
shareholder dividend.
BUT the resulting reduction in customer CPU utilization would
cannibalize the additional hardware sales that would have been made when
customer work volume increases, making the hardware side of the house
*very* unhappy...
Reducing customer CPU utilization likely loses IBM more money than it
makes them, so guess what priority optimal code generation is likely to
have?
Peter
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