Re: Ultimate efficiency using INITIALIZE statement in COBOL

Pete Dashwood wrote:

The OS can't move stuff around any faster than COBOL (or any other
language) does...


Whether the OS can or cannot is probably immaterial. I just did a little
test by timing a loop of a 2500-byte move. Admittedly, it was on my piddly
PC, but 100,000,000 iterations of "MOVE A TO B" took, wait for it now.... 29
seconds. (The PERFORM loop itself took 0.39 seconds).

That's 0.00000029 seconds per move, or, for the 55,000 transactions
mentioned, about 16 milliseconds.

The OP, by investing several days of research, coding, and testing can
expect a savings of, oh, 14 milliseconds per day. Max.

My original supposition: "Coding for micro efficiency is usually futile,"
still stands.


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