> We were doing doing some performance testing on a cobol program and
> found that it seemed to take a long time to get the current date using
> the function current-date call.  We then created a test program which
> simply does a 'move current-date' 10,000 times and then a 'move
> function current-date' 10,000 times.  We found the difference in the
> amount of time it takes to make these calls significant. Has anyone
> else noticed this and do you know of a reason?
>
>
> Call                 CPU       Count   Time/call     Wall
> ===================================================================
> CURRENT-DATE          0.35     10000      0.35          1
> FUNCTION CURRENT     13.20     10000     13.20         55
> ===================================================================
> cpu: parent user =   14.18  system =    0.00
> wall seconds (since first starttime call): 58
>
>
> Ray Potts

I have changed a program to use this function. It compiles and runs ok,
but when I try to compile with the debug option the compiler aborts. Anyone
else encounter this problem?

Steve Haug