Re: 4GL compile on uniprocessor/multiprocessor systems

} } Clay Irving wrote: } > } > We've been told by an Informix SE that we need to compile our code on } > a multiprocessor HP if we intend to run the code on a multiprocessor } > HP (in other words, don't compile the code on a uniprocessor system } > and run it on a multiprocessor system). Does this make sense? Or, more } > importantly, is this true? } } Clay, } No! It certainly does not make any sense. The compiled application } does not care a rat whisker about what kind of processor it is running } on. ANd niether does the 4GL preprocessor. (The C compiler.. well, it's } still highly unlikely.) If you have doubts, just remember that the } language has not changed since release 4.10; only TCP capabilities have } been added to it and the programmer does not want to care about that. } } The compiled app knows only to send messages to an IPC and get back data } through the same IPC. You can convert the database from a local SE to } OnLine on a remote machine and still run the app without recompiling. } } Someone has misunderstood a question, misunderstood an answer. } } Hope this has helped. } I beg to differ. I think that there is indeed a parallel 'c' compiler - I don't know if it is sold on HP MP machines or not. Certainly you don't have to worry about breaking out your SQL code - that will be handled by the engine in whatever fashion it needs, but if such a compiler exists then it would certainly make sense to take advantage of it for your front end apps. It makes sense that you could RUN the app in question on the MP machine without recompiling - it just wouldn't take full advantage. cheers j. ________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA (x65388) jparker@boi.hp.com Currently on loan to CTSB/DTC ________________________________________________________________________ Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx) ________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. ________________________________________________________________________