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From: pinter-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Ron Pinter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: REXX compiler for VM/CMS
Summary: IBM has announced a REXX compiler for VM/CMS
Keywords: compiler, REXX, VM
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Date: 15 Jun 89 18:49:12 GMT
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Reply-To: pinter-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Ron Pinter)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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Last February, IBM has announced (both in the US and in Europe) a VM REXX
compiler for CMS.  The performance gains for "typical" programs are between
a factor of 3 to 7; programs doing mainly arithmetic with NUMERIC DIGITS 9
on one end, or those emitting mostly host commands on the other extreme,
will naturally fall outside this range.  EXECs using the INTERPRET
construct cannot be compiled, but they can call other compiled programs.
The planned availability date was June 1989 (i.e. now), but I am not sure
if this is indeed the case.  Check with your local IBM marketing office
(the product number is 5664-390).