[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Performance Overhead When...

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Well it is a bit difficult to say something about the case without the code or the parameters under which the AppServer operates. Having said that, I've seen multiple people trying to make suggestions concerning ABL performance and most of the time they get a "much more performance is lost/gained when accessing the database" reply. Personally I think downplaying ABL performance issues this way is a bit silly, because performance is (or should) always an issue and the ABL compiler isn't exactly on par in its optimizing when compared to the likes of C# or Java etc. On the other hand, calling a method 3000 times or 1 time for the whole set is a choice which is costing you performance in the former case. No surprises there I would say. Inlining isn't trivial either btw, because private methods can be called recursively just as well (and a number of other reasons why you would need the stack). just my 2c

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