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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

222.0. "Oracle precompilers and /NOOPTIMIZE ?" by TAV02::CORFAS (Israel-never a dull moment) Wed Oct 19 1988 23:43

	Somewhere in this notesfile, a mention was made of the fact that
Oracle's precompilers force the user to compile without optimizer. When
mentioning this to a customer, he reacted with surprise, and told me he
compiles his Pascal programs (produced by an Oracle V5 precompiler) without
the /NOOPTIMIZE qualifier, so he assumes he is using the optimizer. Could
someone clarify this issue ? The performance of a non-optimized application
could be significantly worse than that of an optimized one, and that could
prove a good point in our products' (Rdb, Rally) favor.

	Thanks in advance,
			  Avi
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222.1May be COBOL specificMDVAX4::DUNCANGGerry Duncan @KCOThu Oct 20 1988 16:429
    See 202.2 for more info on Cobol and Oracle syntax.  Seems I heard
    my customer say once that there are bugs in the Oracle Cobol precomiler
    when using /OPTIMIZE.  Don't know if the same bugs, if there are
    any, exist in the Pascal precompiler.
    
    To verify the customer's understanding of Oracle use, ask him if
    he's using PCC or HLI syntax.
    
    Gerry
222.2Specific to languages starting with "C"?SRFSUP::MCCARTHYWell, it ain't shinola.Sun Oct 23 1988 02:052
    As late as March of this year, the Oracle (*spit*) "C" pre-compiler
    required that VAX C programs be compiled /NOOPT