What product? IRIS, IRIS fir Health, HealthShare HC or HealthShare?

How did you created in the Management Portal the new database/namespace?

Do you need to decode a Base64 stream or you just need to read a stream to a string?

If so, then:

Set string=stream.Read($$$MaxStringLength)

Set string= $System.Encryption.Base64Decode(stream.Read($$$MaxStringLength))

If the B64 is "small" to fit a %String (~3.5MB or less), then just use $System.Encryption.Base64Decode()

To mesure the difference I've a differente approach then Robert and concentrate on same/different class calls without any additional overhead.
Please note that is my no means a demonstration of best/worst approach, IMHO there is a better solution, see my next post.

I've created two classes and simulated a big number of calls of a class method within the same class and same code calling a class method in a different class.

Class Community.perf.Class1
{

ClassMethod Compare(NumCalls As %Integer)
{
	Set SingleStart=$zh
	Do ..SingleClassCalls(NumCalls)
	Set SingleEnd=$zh
	Set MultiStart=$zh
	Do ..MultiClassCalls(NumCalls)
	Set MultiEnd=$zh
	Set Difference=(MultiEnd-MultiStart)-(SingleEnd-SingleStart)
	Set Percent=1-((SingleEnd-SingleStart)/(MultiEnd-MultiStart))*100
	Write "Same class calls: ",SingleEnd-SingleStart,!
	Write "Diff class calls: ",MultiEnd-MultiStart,!
	Write "Difference: ",Difference," ",Percent,"%",!
}

ClassMethod SingleClassCalls(NumCalls As %Integer)
{
	For i=1:1:NumCalls {
		Set x=..Compute(NumCalls)
	}
}

ClassMethod MultiClassCalls(NumCalls As %Integer)
{
	For i=1:1:NumCalls {
		Set x=##class(Community.perf.Class2).Compute(NumCalls)
	}
}

ClassMethod Compute(Num As %Integer)
{
	;Quit Num
	Set ret=Num
	Quit ret
}

}

Class Community.perf.Class2
{

ClassMethod Compute(Num As %Integer)
{
	;Quit Num
	Set ret=Num
	Quit ret
}

}

Calling the Compare() method with 100M iterations the result is:

EPTEST>do ##class(Community.perf.Class1).Compare(100000000)
Same class calls: 20.992929
Diff class calls: 31.460201
Difference: 10.467272 33.27147210534351%

Please note that changing the Compute() method in both classes to:

ClassMethod Compute(Num As %Integer)
{
    Quit Num
}

Makes a BIG difference:

EPTEST>do ##class(Community.perf.Class1).Compare(100000000)
Same class calls: 4.606181
Diff class calls: 5.52639
Difference: .920209 16.6511773508565266%

Using the first method code it adds the handling of the stack, therefore it takes longer and, for 100M calls, the difference is noticeable.
I think the first with "some" stack handling is a more realistic use case.

In conclusion, there is a difference and is measurable. Is it noticeable? Not much, IMHO in a computation that probably takes many minutes duplicating codes is not worth the gain.

There is however a better approach without duplicating the code, see my next post.

Ciao Robert,

I'm not sure your test address the original question, that is:

"whenever you call code outside of the routine as opposed to calling code in the same routine, some execution speed is lost"

In your test1 you do:

[call class method] -> [call class method in other class] -> [call a function in same class]

In your test2 you do:

[call class method] -> [call a function in same class]

This way you are not comparing "call code outside of the routine as opposed to calling code in the same routine", you are ADDING an additional call/level.

In addition, to measure the time penalty for calling inside/outside "routine" (or class), adding 100M global access does not help in getting a reliable measure because too many factors may change the time measured between different runs.
Finally a doubt, are we sure that calling a function and calling a class method is a fair comparison? May be or may be not, I don't know.

Would you mind to post the full/actual code you used?

...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?

My BIO can be found in my DC profile, so I just copy/pasted it from there.

I invite everyone who posted here to add/copy this info in their profile 😀

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Since then I've used most, if not all, InterSystems products up to IRIS and HealthShare today.
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I've attended most of the InterSystems conferences in the last decades and I'll be in Orlando @ READY 2025.

Using Process Private Global:

ClassMethod setLayout(layout) As %Status
{
	MERGE ^||layout = layout

	Set node="^||layout"
	For  {
		Set node=$query(@node) Q:node=""
		Write node,"=",@node,!
	}
	Quit $$$OK
}

Using local variable array:

ClassMethod arrayQuery(myArrayLocalName) [ PublicList = myArrayLocalName ]
{
	Set node="myArrayLocalName"
	For  {
		Set node=$query(@node) Q:node=""
		Write node,"=",@node,!
	}
}

Note: the idea of using Process Private Global was INSTEAD of local variable array all around, not merging etc.

Another option, in your BO add:

Property LocalInterface As %String(MAXLEN = 255);
Parameter SETTINGS = "LocalInterface:Connection:selector?context={Ens.ContextSearch/TCPLocalInterfaces}";

Then before calling the service (..Adaper.Invoke*()) add this:

	If 'IsObject(..Adapter.%Client.HttpRequest) {
		Set ..Adapter.%Client.HttpRequest=##class(%Net.HttpRequest).%New()
	}
	Set ..Adapter.%Client.HttpRequest.LocalInterface=$ZStrip($P(..LocalInterface,"("),"*W")
	

Edit to add: Why are you extending EnsLib.SOAP.GenericOperation?

For a SOAP BO using EnsLib.SOAP.OutboundAdapter the class signature is supposed to be:

Class osuwmc.Nutrition.OSU.CBOARDNetMenuOperation.CBORDHL7Port Extends Ens.BusinessOperation
 

That won't work, you are just setting a %Net.HttpRequest object in a (private) variable called HttpRequest that is destroyed when the method ends.

You need to set/change the %Net.HttpRequest instance contained in the ..%Client property of the adapted AFTER the web service client class is set/instantiated in ..%Client.

Did you had a chance to test the modified adapter I've posted? Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to test it.

You can extend EnsLib.SOAP.OutboundAdapter and add support for LocalInterface and use the "new" adapter in your BO.

With "inspiration" 😁 from EnsLib.HTTP.OutboundAdapter, something like:

Class Community.adapter.SoapOutbound Extends EnsLib.SOAP.OutboundAdapter
{

/// In a multi-homed system, specify which network interface the TCP connection should go through.  An empty value means to use any interface. <br/>
/// To be able to bind to IPv6 interfaces you may need to enable IPv6 in your instance.  This is done in the System Management Portal under 
/// System Administration > Configuration > Additional Settings > Startup, by editing the IPv6 setting.
Property LocalInterface As %String(MAXLEN = 250);
Parameter SETTINGS = "LocalInterface:Connection:selector?context={Ens.ContextSearch/TCPLocalInterfaces}";
Method OnInit() As %Status
{
	Set ..%Client.HttpRequest=##class(%Net.HttpRequest).%New()
	Set ..%Client.HttpRequest.LocalInterface=$ZStrip($P(..LocalInterface,"("),"*W")
	Return ##super()
}

}

I did not tested it, try it and let us know.

Nete, if for any reason you reinstantiate ..%Client.HttpRequest, then you need to set the LocalInterface  property.

Having LocalInterface support in EnsLib.SOAP.OutboundAdapter "out of the box" can be worth an entry in the ideas portal.

$query argument can be a global or a public variable, so when using local variable array change the method signature:

ClassMethod test(array) [ public= array ]

Or use a temp global or, even better, a Process Private Global instead.

In the...good old days, we used to do that in one line 😂

s node="array" f  s node=$q(@node) q:node=""  w node,"=",@node,!

array(1)=1
array(1,1)=1,1
array(1,1,1)=1,1,1
array(1,1,1,1)=1,1,1,1
array(1,1,2)=1,1,2
array(1,1,3)=1,1,3
array(2)=2
array(2,1)=2,1
array(2,1,1)=2,1,1