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Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on May 4, 2011

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Change fixed record implementation

The implementation of a fixed record is at the moment hybrid. The fixed record is represented by an object model, and it is simultaneously backed by a byte storage. This causes at minimum a doubling of any action and the creation of many intermediate Java objects, that take a lot of CPU and memory. This can be more depending on the depth of the fixed record and is strongly influenced by the use of redefines, which should use the identical data.

We propose a simplification of the fixed record construct, choosing either for a full object based approach, where the bytestorage is only built at serialisation time, or a full bytearray based approach, which avoids temporary object creation.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 18, 2012

    This feature has been delivered in v8.5. We also plan to implement it in fix pack 8.0.1.4.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 12, 2011

    We are planning to implement this enhancement in the next V8 fix pack.

  • Guest
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    |     May 19, 2011

    Thank you for this in-depth analysis. We are always looking for ways to improve performance, especially in the runtime environments. We will consider making this change in a future release.

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