Todd Burch wrote: > I've written some routines (in assembler) to access IPCS dump data using the > IPCS Customization Services. I had written the same routines before in > REXX, but slowness of REXX made the pain too great to bear any more. So, > now I am a happy camper with my very high speed assembler routines. What > was taking 3-4 minutes in REXX to process now takes sub-seconds with > assembler.
can you say dumprx http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#dumprx very early, when it was still rex ... and long before it was released as a product ... I wanted to do a demonstration that rex was more than just another command scripting language (ala exec/exec2). ipcs was something like 20k(?) lines of assembler and had a whole dept. supporting it. i wanted to demonstrated that in half-time over a period of 3-months ... i could completely re-implement ipcs from scratch in rex ... with ten times the function and running ten times faster (there was some slight of hand ... plus 120 instructions written in assembler). for what-ever reason, it was never released ... but at one point was used by nearly all internal locations as well as customer support and PSRs. this was the middle of the OCO-wars ... and one of the side points ... was that if it would ever be release ... the full source would still have to ship (even if other products made the transition to object-code only). i was finally allowed to make presentations at share and other user group meetings ... hoping to encourage other people to duplicate the effort. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
