Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:12:20 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote:

> I don't diasagree with your statement but the point you are missing is
that 
> this happens ONCE, at initialization, it happens in memory, is
overlapped 
> with fetching the values (which takes many times longer), and the time
is 
> therefore three fifths of five eighths of **** all (or three eighths of
**** 
> all, if you want to be pedantic :-))
> 
> Pete.

In that case "the simplest thing that could possibly work" would be the
way to go. Just make sure you're not around when they move that once only
code into the "once per record" and come looking for the person who wrote
all that slow code.

Tim