Author: Robert Sample
Subject: Reply to: CONTIG for performance?
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:26 am (GMT 5.5)
I don't think performance is the issue any more -- but RACF, for example, has CONTIG coded in the sample JCL member RACJCL because the RACF database must be allocated in one extent.
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Subject: Reply to: CONTIG for performance?
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:26 am (GMT 5.5)
I don't think performance is the issue any more -- but RACF, for example, has CONTIG coded in the sample JCL member RACJCL because the RACF database must be allocated in one extent.
_________________
TANSTAAFL
The first rule of code reuse is that the code needs to be worth re-using.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth