On 13/04/2012 12:45 AM, McKown, John wrote:
Now that you mention it, I remember that the C/C++ compiler has a architecture option to control the instructions generated. I should have known that the PL/X compiler would too. I didn't know that they both share the same back-end. I wish that the COBOL compiler did. I am constantly amazed at the amount of code generate by a simpe:
Also at Share I heard that COBOL will indeed share the same back-end and have all the nice optimizations in future releases of z/OS. They said that they are going to share the Java optimizer technology, which apparently is best-of-breed.
ADD +1 TO WS-INTEGER. when WS-INTEGER is defined as PIC S9(9) BINARY or NATIVE. COBOL seems to have an inordinate love for PACKED-DECIMAL. Someone once said it was due to ANSI standards compliance. Might be worth it, in CPU saved, to license the C compiler and port the OpenCOBOL Unless I somehow have the wrong compile parameters.
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