Re-compiling quiz programs

[Richard Witkopp]

Compiling/parsing on the fly still took too long. Our
users ran LOTS of reports. Why waste machine cycles every
time? Many of our reports took less than a minute to run,
we were not going to double or triple that time for our
users while they sat in front of empty screens waiting.

> > > Speaking of the Devil of Uncompiled Quiz.  What's the 
> ratio of sites
> > > that use compiled Quiz vs uncompiled Quiz?
> > >
> > > I've worked only in a few (HP Only) shops that used compiled Quiz.
> > > Performance has never really that much of a problem, vis-a-vis the
> > > two methods.  (Faux-pas such as huge access statements mess-up
> > > performance just as much as on compiled Quiz as uncompiled.)
> >
> > Three shops I worked in compiled everything, one did not (all VMS).
> > Most of the time, reports were run from a menu. Compiling on the fly
> > looks pretty ugly to the user and eats up way too much time.
> 
> I never compile quiz and qtp and about 1/4 are called from 
> menus.  Just add:
> 
> SET NOWARN
> SET NOSTAT
> SET NOLIST
> 
> In your source. I like to at the beginning of each pass with these
> statements. Plus when I call the quiz/qtp from a 
> RPG/COBAL/command prompt I
> use the following parameters:
> 
> QUIZ AUTO=file_name,LIST=NOLIST
> 
> It looks just like the complied quiz/qtp.
> 
> Abraham Z.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Subscribe: "subscribe powerh-l" in message body to majordomo@lists.swau.edu
Unsubscribe: "unsubscribe powerh-l" in message to majordomo@lists.swau.edu
This list is closed, thus to post to the list, you must be a subscriber.