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· 15 hr ago

Shared code execution speed

#Performance #Caché #InterSystems IRIS

Let's suppose two different routines use one and the same chunk of code. From the object-oriented POV, a good decision is to have this chunk of code in a separate class and have both routines call it. However, whenever you call code outside of the routine as opposed to calling code in the same routine, some execution speed is lost. For reports churning through millions of transactions this lost speed might be noticeable. Any advice how to optimize specifically speed?
P.S. Whenever someone is talking about the best choice for whatever, I am always tempted to ask: "What are we optimizing?". Optimizing speed here.
P.P.S. I did notice that some classes speed is very different comparing with old style utilities, while doing largely the same, like exporting.

Product version: Caché 2017.1
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Robert Cemper · 12 hr ago

Loading compiled obj code from cache to partition should not have any remarkable impact.
But you are right by principle ! It's some kind of overhead and not for free.

If you place the affected code into a .INC routine you may share that piece
rather easy over multiple instances.
Though mostly not used in that way any Include may also contain executable code.
For a :MAC routine it's  nothing impressive.
For Class code it's a bit tricky but works as well

example ANNA.INC

anna(name) ;
 write !,"Hello ",name,!
 quit ">>>"_name_"<<<"

example Anna.CLS
 

/// demo for Anna
Include ANNA
Class A.Anna {
ClassMethod demo(name As %String) As %String
{
	quit $$anna(name)
}
}

It works:

SAMPLES>write "===",##class(A.Anna).demo("robert")
===
Hello robert
>>>robert<<<
SAMPLES>

So multiple loading is reduced.

You have of course also the option to compose a Custom Command in %ZLANG***.MAC
I just have no experience of how this impacts partition loading.
 

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Enrico Parisi · 1 hr ago

...whenever you call code outside of the routine as opposed to calling code in the same routine, some execution speed is lost. For reports churning through millions of transactions this lost speed might be noticeable.

Can you reproduce this with a small/simple self contained example using code in same class/routine and same code calling different classes/routines where the difference is noticeable?

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