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Why DYL280 takes more CPU time than COBOL codes


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partha11

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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:44 pm
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Hi,
Can anyone please tell me How DYL280 is inefficient to COBOL? Or
Why DYL280 takes more CPU time than COBOL codes?

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DavidatK

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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 2:50 am
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partha11,

Dylakor(DYL280) is an interpretive language, not a compiled language. This means that for every line of instruction, the base Dylakor program must interpret the source and execute ?canned? routines to execute the instruction. Most of the CPU is taken up in the interpretation of the instructions, not the execution of the instruction. COBOL, on the other hand, is a compiled language that translates the COBOL instructions into machine language once at compile time and only creates machine language for the specific instruction. Execution is performed on the machine language. Now this is not to say that COBOL doesn?t use many subroutines to accomplish many of the functions it performs.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:33 pm
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To add on the query. We do have REXX language which is also run without compiling. Ofcourse we can have a compiled code for huge file handling operations. Do we have similar kind of method in DYL280 also.
Eventhough rexx can be run without compiling, its much faster compared to COBOL.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:38 pm
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Eventhough rexx can be run without compiling, its much faster compared to COBOL.
What statistics do you have that demonstrate this?

Compiled/assembled/linked code typically uses less resources than interpreted code. . .
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:56 am
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Agree with Dick. Without doubt, Rexx is much slower than COBOL. Yet... I love it...
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:57 am
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to each his own, I'd ratther code in assembler, its faster than all of them
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:49 am
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Yup, i like working with assembler (rather a lot icon_wink.gif ). A concern with assembler is that there are fewer and fewer who could maintain the code once written. It is the language i've worked with the longest - well a few assemblers icon_smile.gif

Not so many clients are willing to fund creating things that "run the fastest". . .
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:27 am
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Do we have similar kind of method in DYL280 also.

NO
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Zakir Ali

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:41 pm
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Hi,
Can any one tell me how to compare two files using DYL language. Please post some templates, So that I can understand it better.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:40 pm
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if you know how to perform a file read in DYL280, it should be easy enough for you to write your own logic to compare records after
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:25 pm
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how to compare two files using DYL language

There is no standard template, If you know the compare logic then you can write your own compariosn logic for your requirement.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:13 pm
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Hello,

If you do not know the compare logic, there is a "Sticky" near the top of the COBOL forum that you might adapt for your requirement.
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HappySrinu

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:49 am
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dick scherrer wrote:
Hello,

If you do not know the compare logic, there is a "Sticky" near the top of the COBOL forum that you might adapt for your requirement.


this is not answer to your question.
DYL280 is reporting language whih is similar to cobol but as every one said it is interpret lang so use more resources.

It have lot of in built functions which we can straight away use for report formating.

Even thouht D's comment was correct that the intrepret languages process time is slow but it is easy to update/modify and especialy while running in production we don't need to follow lot of steps like compilation etc..

My team use to work on DYL280 and hoenstly i never worked on it other than looking in doco..

so don't mind guys.correct me if i am wrong
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:01 pm
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Hello,

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correct me if i am wrong
Not necessarily a matter of right or wrong. It is a good practice when posting an opinion (rather than some technical fact) to post that is an oinion.

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this is not answer to your question.
DYL280 is reporting language whih is similar to cobol but as every one said it is interpret lang so use more resources.
I don't know what the second sentence has to do with the first. . . Actually, it may well be an answer to the question. Being interpreted versus compiled has little to do with coding logic. If TS can read COBOL and implement the same logic (different syntax) using DYL280, it should work as desired.

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It have lot of in built functions which we can straight away use for report formating.
How does this relate to comparing 2 files?
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