In
<985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c231f711...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>,
on 11/25/2013
at 10:43 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]>
said:
>It has been suggested to management here that there could be
>potentially significant CPU savings from re-engineering application
>programs such that any SORT's are done in a separate step, so that
>a program with a single internal SORT would be broken up into a
>pre-SORT process followed by an external SORT of the massaged data
>followed by a post-process of the SORTed data.
By "internal sort" do you mean a sort programmed in COBOL, or do you
mean invoking the sort utility from within the COBOL program? If the
latter, why would separate job steps be more efficient? For that
matter, why wouldn't it be less efficient?
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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