I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but there's a recent performance wrinkle to Enterprise PL/I. Enterprise PL/I Version 3.7 now supports the hardware decimal floating point instructions which debuted (in microcode form) on the System z9 and graduated to full hardware implementation in the System z10. So you could well see some interesting, favorable performance improvements in mathematics with that compiler, particularly on the z10. YMMV.
I'm working on a short paper on this subject which may or may not get published, so it's on the brain. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
