I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Here at Sprezz Towers excitement is rising about a forthcoming update to S/List that we think our users are going to love. With each release of OI we kept getting reports that S/List was getting slower - and our testing confirmed that this was the case.

So we did what we do best at Sprezz - attacked the problem head on with a radical rewrite of the S/List engine. So for the past year or so we've been working on a new version of SLIST_PRODUCE (the program that does the grunt work for actually creating the report) to eliminate all calls to GET and SET_PRINTER. A few thousand of lines of code later we are finally ready to go public with the results. Now the User Interface remains the same (for now ;)) but the print engine is significantly faster. Those of you with long memories may remember AREV LightSpeed? Well we wouldn't go quite so far as to call it that but we have managed to wring every drop of performance from the product. Your mileage may vary but we reckon that most reports will run several times faster. Take a look at the following figures to see what we mean!

call slist("LIST 1000 SYSREPOS APPID TYPEID CLASSID ENTITYID LANDSCAPE ID-SUPP NOT-CENTRE")

VSPRINTER2

VSPRINTER1

S/LIST EXPRESS

77.956 78.97 79.17

56.368 56.797 56.717

4.349 4.526 4.543

Average 78.699

Average 56.627

Average 4.473

call slist("LIST SYSREPOS")

VSPRINTER2

VSPRINTER1

S/LIST EXPRESS

1099.197 1096.097 1121.036

780.128 776.609 774.843

46.699 46.065 45.938

Average 1,105.443

Average 777.193

Average 46.234

For fairness we repeated the exercise with OList (Oinsight's reporting tool) and got the following results \

call list("LIST 1000 SYSREPOS APPID TYPEID CLASSID ENTITYID LANDSCAPE ID-SUPP")

VSPRINTER2

VSPRINTER1

18.491 18.076 17.789

7.945 8.259 9.21

Average 18.119

Average 8.805

call olist("LIST SYSREPOS")

VSPRINTER2

VSPRINTER1

169.793 169.400 170.111

90.061 89.313 89.199

Average 169.768

Average 89.520