nagy%43198.hepnet@LBL.ARPA.UUCP (04/29/87)
In designing systems like SETUP or PREPARE which end up calling lots of little command procedures... remember that just about the SLOWEST operation DCL can do is to open a new file (for reading, writing or command execution). "Simple" things (a logical name or 2 and a symbol or 2 at most) are best grouped together to avoid this problem! For more complicated packages, the overhead of the file open becomes less important. However, the long dragging wait for LOGIN to complete can be a real pain!