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From: ADPDKHTS@UIAMVS.BITNET (Deb Hawley 319-335-6321)
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Subject: Re: Compiled SAS code (fwd)
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Date: 12 Jan 90 15:25:00 GMT
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>
> Those of us who grew up in IBM land tend to forget that everything is not the
> way it is in CMS & MVS land.  Even in Unix, the dynamic linking to a routine
> is done entirely differently than is a directly linked call.  This has been
> one of the problems with Formats.  On the IBM they were "subroutines" which
> were dynamically called - they could not be implemented that way on other
> platforms.
>
> In most modern operating systems which support virtual memory, the paging
> mechanism is usually more efficient than the general disk access, thus better
> performance is actually achived without dynamic invokation of library
> routines.
>
> -phil
>
       Thanks, this is the answer I was looking for, and it makes
       perfect sense.  Since the only thing I've ever known is IBM
       CMS and MVS, it's easy to see where I needed the information!!!

       Deb