Re: Pseudo Code or Compiled

This is one of the classic questions with INFORMIX-4GL. The Value-Added reseller could be quite correct in saying that it is not worth the money upgrading to compiled 4gl. There are incompatibilities between RDS and compiled 4GL and the debugging of these could cause problems. The value added reseller may also sell the application to other parties and would not want to have two sets to code to maintain. That said the compiled version would permit more users on the same box before swapping occurs. You imply that you only have 6 users. If that is the case I doubt whether it really is justifiable to go to the expense of compiled 4GL. If you have performance problems with that number of users I suspect you will still have performance problems with the compiled version. If you need any more help, and are willing to discuss who the VAR is please contact me via personal e-mail. > > Chaps and Chapetes > > I have been having an argument with a third party software house > ( bit of a waste of time really ! ) > > We have been shipped an application which has been compiled to pseudo > code > and a runner. I know that the pseudo code is loaded in memory each time > a user calls that program so that 6 users using the same program load > the > code into the data area of the stack 6 times taking up large amounts of > memory whereas compiled code can be shared in memory meaning that it > will > load only once into the text area of the stack and will be shared by > the other five. This has a potential to give large memory savings. > > The supplier says this is all crap and that there is no business case > for compiling the code > > Am I missing some thing here or are they just not prepared to spend any > money again ?? > > Thanks > > Terry Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy Phone 01628-72154 Fax 01628-37463 CIX - onlinedbc