Re: IBM 360 memory

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:12

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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> My understanding is that when running under MVS it is better to
> run the compilers without overlays.  One can, for example, load
> the Fortran H compiler into the link editor, and write it out
> again without any overlay statements.  This will remove the overlay
> structure that it would otherwise have.
> 
> That may depend on a sufficient amount of real memory, though.
> 

It's almost always better to run without overlays if you have enough 
memory.  At the time the tradeoff was program loads vs. the requirement 
to spill symbol table and intermediate code to disk during compilation. 
  Pretty much a no-brainer.

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