Are not the COBOL compilers smart enough to inline small subroutines? So there is no performance hit whatsoever from making a one-line function into a called subroutine? I know the C/C++ compiler is (whether you declare a method as inline or not, for those of you who are C/C++ people).
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Hochee Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Coding for the future I suspect I'm a 'man overboard' on this one, but don't feel I need a life preserver. Having worked on some larger products with many many moving parts, and not of my own making, I would always welcome the use of Token_Len, and if it is being used to prime a register, no comment really needed. I'm good with the COBOL example as well, and might not even take note of potential overkill. At some point, so called structured programming, functional decomposition, re-usage, (maybe even 'elegance'), made their way into my brain and heart, so that they are now tightly bound up with my soul, and I never even knew it was happening! Powerful stuff! On the other hand, when my performance and efficiency identity asserts itself, the COBOL example would be a strong candidate for change, and I wouldn't think twice about it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
