Re-compiling quiz programs

[Johnson, Tracy]

I should have mentioned that the HPe3000 we use today
is just soooo much faster with the original Quiz code
we still use (created years ago) that it is now
irrelevant to compile.  

For jobs (aka: cron/at):  The majority of Quiz we now use 
would take a minute either way, with the majority of CPU 
time being used in "jobs" to log on and log off the system, 
not running the program.

For sessions:  Same story, users would not know the
difference.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Witkopp [mailto:richard.witkopp@idt.com]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:49 PM
To: powerh-L@lists.swau.edu%INTERNET
Subject: RE: Re-compiling quiz programs


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.

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