Getting Statistical Information

For comparison or other purposes, SORT-MERGE/XL allows you to report statistical information. The statistical information provided by SORT-MERGE/XL includes:

Number of input files (MERGE/XL only)
Number of records sorted (or merged)
Number of intermediate passes (SORT/XL only)
Number of bytes used for the sort work area
Number of comparisons (SORT/XL only)
Amount of CPU time used (in milliseconds)
Elapsed time (in milliseconds)




	NOTE: If SORT-MERGE/XL aborts, the values returned in `statistics` and printed out by `HPSORTSTAT` and `HPMERGESTAT` are unpredictable.

Syntax for HPSORTSTAT and HPMERGESTAT is:

   HPSORTSTAT (status, statistics);



   HPMERGESTAT (status, statistics);

HPSORTSTAT and HPMERGESTAT print the statistics array to $STDLIST.

An example of using HPSORTSTAT follows:

   var

     status : INTEGER;

     statistics : array [1..6] of INTEGER;

        .

        .

        .

   HPSORTSTAT (status, statistics);

The intrinsics and parameters required to get statistical information are:

HPSORTINIT or HPMERGEINIT - statistics parameter must be specified.
HPSORTEND or HPMERGEEND - statistics parameter must be specified.

HPSORTSTAT or HPMERGESTAT must be called after HPSORTEND or HPMERGEEND.

Getting Statistical Information

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