David, My bad, you must have a huge file here, reading 5000 at a time. Hmm, slow as...
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:51 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/07/2013 1:25 AM, Thomas Conley wrote: >> >> On 6/30/2013 12:17 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: >>> >>> In >>> <of28a24a26.61fdf4d9-on80257b99.0039d7d3-80257b99.003a9...@uk.ibm.com>, >>> on 06/29/2013 >>> at 11:39 AM, Martin Packer <[email protected]> said: >>> >>>> In the Munich System z Technical University conference 2 weeks ago >>>> Marna Walle mentioned that in z/OS 2.1 EXECIO is previewed to >>>> perform I/O to VBS (as in "Spanned" :-) ) data sets. >>> >>> >>> Have they added the language enhancements in OOREXX, or at least those >>> in the ANSI standard? >>> >> >> Shmuel, >> >> Unfortunately, any changes to the Rexx language standard that would also >> require changes to the compiler preclude themselves. The compiler is in the >> Dead Pool at IBM, functionally stabilized with no budget to enhance it. >> I've tried and failed numerous times to get IBM to bring Rexx up to ANSI >> standards. The enhancements you see to Rexx are all done through external >> functions, like EXECIO. Those enhancements require no compiler updates, so >> for now, that is all you will see as far as Rexx enhancements go. >> > > > Then the REXX compiler is more trouble than it's worth. I ran some simple > EXECIO read I/O benchmarks and compiled REXX was the slowest of the lot > http://users.tpg.com.au/crayford/rexx-lua-c-io-benchmark.htm. > > > > >> Regards, >> Tom Conley >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
