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MM-cxxiii     Tuesday

2000-05-02

Mist all day, not dense but limiting, not a single ray of sun gets trough. No wonder then that the temperature hovers around 12°C all day.

We finished the performance adaptation. It provides somewhere between 30 and 50% improvement. Not enough really, performance improvements never are, but it is about the only way the performance can be improved without changing the functional design. Jan will be here tomorrow for testing it.
During the adaptations we did notice a few bugs that in Progress itself. Some of the performance increasing techniques that Progress consultants proposed don't work if the database is not a native Progress database. We are using an AS/400 database (DB2/400) so, after migrating some server based tables to the database the program began to behave erratically. Solving that took more time than the performance adaptation itself.

And I got two unplanned programs to be included in V9 (which is officially closed) immediately. That were to be maintenance programs on two files that, as far as I knew, were prototypes only. The files will almost certainly need changes before they can effectively be used. I didn't start them because the performance adaptation had higher priority.

In the news ?

Well nothing serious. On occasion of Labour Day yesterday most politicians and social organizations engaged in verbal battles and, hopefully, all the rhetoric remains just that. The general tenet was something like 'everybody should work less for more money and the state will provide free --everything-- for anybody who needs it'.