George, You moved to Phoenix from NJ. George Smith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Smith Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Translate question
My understanding is that any contemporary platform caches files opened with an OCONV so that, with sufficient memory, there is basically no performance hit. This is certainly true on the mvBase and REALITY systems I support. The old MCD systems didn't have 'sufficient memory' of course, so we worried about it. byw, the current version of REALITY is very nice, and if you actually still have clients on MCD/McDonnell Douglas hardware, you might want to suggest a migration. Reality to Reality is painless. George Smith Phoenix, AZ On 10/20/05, Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oddly enough I learned this back in the day on microdatas (I used to work > for MCD in the late 1970's) and have been using it ever since. > > I find it much easier to program than the OPEN/READ for the simple > purposes. > I'm obviously effeciency oriented and wouldn't OCONV more than 1 field. My > brain detects the need for the second field and I program OPENs and READs. > > I spent 2 days with my MCD clients last week and it's getting painfully > obvious how slow it is. The absense of indexing is perhaps the greatest > loss. I have to be far more concerned for effeciency. > > On D3 and U2 systems, one doesn't have to be perfectly effecient. Before > everyone gets on their soapbox and flames me for not being perfect, > understand that people like me have lived on both sides, native and > contemporary. > > The native systems never had the speed and were about 30% less on other > advanced features. I can honestly say that upgrading to a faster box > brings > with it more application opportunites that may have been declined on the > prior system. There are things you can do on a current system that would > be > a burden on an older system. But effecient methods brough forth from a > system with less resources to a current system wins both times. > > I've not felt the delay during these past 25 years of using OCONV for > single > readv's, old or new systems. That's just my experience. > > Thanks ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
