David Burney <[log in to unmask]> ponders thusly:

> I've a question concerning the use of 'with debugging
> mode.' in Cobol code. I use this occasionally in my
> code to determine logic flow and variable values at
> specific points in the code.  Yet, I do not use the
> "D" indicator in column 7.  My question is, when I
> compile the code and run the object without using the
> ';parm=1' parameter to invoke the debug process, is
> there any performance loss ?  In other words, is leaving
> the 'with debugging mode' code in the program, even
> though I don't invoke it with ';parm=1' more system
> intensive ?

Hmmmmm.  I also would like to know the answer to this.  We use the same
method.  Although anecdotal evidence suggests that their is no performance
penalty (at least, I haven't noticed one yet!), I would be interested in
seeing some hard numbers on this.

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