C?  Can you give Lua a shot?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)
http://www.lua.org/versions.html
http://luaforge.net/projects/mvs38/
http://lua4z.com/doc/manual/using.md.html


On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Andrew Rowley
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/02/2016 5:15, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>> I mentioned Java.  Not realistic.  It produces correct answers, but
>> performance is abysmal.
>>
> Do you say that because you tried it, or because everyone says it?
>
> As part of the development of the API I have been doing some performance
> testing. These are CPU times to read/report about 8GB of SMF data:
>
> DFSORT:
> CP time 0.78 s
>
> Assembler, reading every record but no reporting:
> CP time 1.24 s
>
> C reading every record, no report:
> CP time 1.4 s
>
> Java batch job, basic report:
> CP time 0.9 s
> + zIIP time 2.4s
>
> (These shouldn't be considered accurate benchmarks, they were tests to get a
> basic feel for performance.)
>
> Java is not as good as assembler, but I wouldn't call it abysmal. I have
> ambitions to improve it although that may be difficult as most of the time
> seems to be in the I/O routines.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew Rowley
> Black Hill Software
> +61 413 302 386
>
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