Re: What's better: one lage .4gi or lots of little one's ?

>>>>>>>>>>> Perry's response to Hans Karl Winter <<<<<<<<<< > >Only use p-code for dev. environment because it has a good >debugger. For production env. use the compiled version of 4GL. >Once .4gi files get past a certain size, approx. 1meg, it starts >taking a really long time to load. Even on an HP-9000 machine. >For example, we have the following .4gi and it takes approximately >20 seconds to load. It is closer to 2meg, but the point where >the loading really starts to slow down I believe we found to >be around the 1meg mark. This is generally ok in the dev. >environment, but user usually want to see a better load time >than 20 seconds. Banzaiiii!! Fools rush in, etc: My 0.02 says lots of small 4gi's. Perry is biased against p-code cos FourGen has bazillions of tiny functions which must all be validated when loading. If you write human-readable code, you would probably not have so many functions to check at load time... :-) -- Cheers, Billy "Have you got it yet?" (c) Dazza, 1995