Experience with an Implementation of the Revised Standard Routines for FASTBUS

We have noted several benefits in our implementation of the Revised Standard Routines for FASTBUS. The user application code is simpler because the package itself contains more functionality. Our system is not dependent on the application program detecting, interpreting, and reporting all encountered errors due to the automatic status reporter. Making list manipulation simpler has resulted in more of our users invoking delayed mode, yielding great execution speed savings. Because of the "generic" nature of our present implementation, we anticipate transporting application code to and from other implementations with little or no impact on either the application code or the implementation code.