I'd take free advice from Barry. It's not actually free, it's priceless...
zNorman -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CPU cost of malloc/free (or STORAGE OBTAIN, GETMAIN etc.) Free advice is often only worth the price, but for what its worth, I recommend you run 100 and then 200 transactions/functions and then subtract the difference to get the actual cost of the 100 actual events you want to measure, to thus eliminate the start up and shutdown costs (which for some transactions, can be 90% of the cost of a single transaction!). Barry Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD President-Programmer MXG Software Merrill Consultants 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229 [email protected] http://www.mxg.com - FAQ has Most Answers [email protected] - invoices/PO/Payment [email protected] - technical tel: 214 351 1966 - expect slow reply, use email fax: 214 350 3694 - prefer email, still works ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
