Re-compiling quiz programs

[Richard Witkopp]

Now if you had a Vax or an Alpha you WOULD notice
the difference, because compiled quiz running from
a quick menu goes like a bandit on VMS.

> 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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