Since I know what I want the answer to be....."V6 is almost as fast as V4" :-)  
 my hope is you get, say, 19000 lines of data division and 1000 of procedure 
division!

That's just my way of saying that, in my experience, no two 20000 line programs 
are the same in terms of compilation resources.  (Or, for that matter, run time 
improvement.)  20000 lines of ADD 1 TO TALLY is different than a nightmarish 
mishmash of 20000 lines of overlapping PERFORMed code.

Because of that, I encourage as many people as possible to help Charles out.

One problem with the COBOL world is that there is no Spec equivalent.  In the 
past, I've made this offer in various places and I'll make it here again.  If 
you have a 20000 line program (or more or less) and you think it's 
representative of something important to your environment and you want to see 
compile time improvements or run time improvements and you can share it, I'm 
also interested in having it!

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