STRING Statement Performance improvement

vijikesavan

Hi,
We have a program with multiple string statements in it. These constitiute to high CPU and we are looking for ways to reduce it. Few stmnts we can remove but we need to retain most of them.
Can anyone suggest me a replacement for "STRING" statements for performance?
Any pointers will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Viji

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

What are the string statements? Many times they can be replaced with moves with reference modification.

vijikesavan

The STRING statement is like this:

Craq Giegerich

enrico-sorichetti

Unless the people who wrote the compiler fouled up things
there should be not a big difference in performance,,
thats just a series of moves

something that could be done, and it' s being done quite frequently in such evaluation,
is to write two simple programs performing lets say 10000 times the buffer build
one program using the string operator
the other one the moves

and look at the cpu and elapsed times
( no I/O just the moves )
unless the compiler is soooo smart to realize that
the destination variables are never used on the right side of a statement
and discard all the operations done on them
the C compiler just does that

for a the average cobol programmer it should take a few minutes
( after all he has a whole program to cannibalize )

I would do it myself, but I do not speak cobol

another way would be to run a compile and look at the assembler listing

Bill O'Boyle

Keep the STRING Verb and compile the program using the LIST,NOOFFSET compile options and post the Assembler expansion of the STRING.

As Enrico has said, it should just be a series of MVC's.

I'd be surprised if a COBOL run-time routine is invoked, although this can't be ruled out until the expansion can be reviewed.

Regards,

Bill