Here IBM have been pushing the 5.1 barrow - even naming numbers. From the announcement: "With modern advanced optimization and improved exploitation of z hardware, many well-structured, CPU-intensive batch applications have shown performance increases greater than 10%"
Hmmm - it's that "well-structured" bit I'd be concerned about ... Shane ... (waiting for Tom to come storming in from stage left). On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:19:53 -0400, Paul Strauss wrote: : Since you are working on performance, have you tried compiling with the : Enterprise COBOL V4.2 compiler? New compilers will generate code that : uses instruction sets on new CPUs. You may get some benefit that way. Code : can also be optimized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
