None of our environments are virtual. We have four environments:
BS1 - Sandbox - standalone HANA box - SP13 first applied here; was where we did our original regression testing for SP13; we must not have run the same logic scripts in the same way to notice the longer run times enough to put a stop to the rollout plan for the rest of our environments
BD2/BQ2 - Development and QA on one HANA box together; BD2 has already been copied over from the upgraded Production environment, so is now at SP13 level, but the QA (BQ2) environment is still in SP09.
BP2 - Production - standalone HANA box; has been upgraded to SP13 and we noticed the longer run times here first, which prompted us to go back and do more comparative testing between BS1 and BQ2. The log files I've been sending are from these systems, but I see similar results in BP2 compared to BS1 (i.e. inexplicably longer).
Some questions: what is it in the log files did you see that prompted you to think BS1 was a virtual server? Also, which OSS note or other documentation told you that they changed the *ELSE processing priority in SP13? I'd like to see that note. Maybe we need to change how we are coding some of our logic scripts, including these, as a result. Seems counter to typical efficient programming - normally you want your least common things occurring in the ELSE, but oh well.
For full disclosure, we did have to apply some OSS notes after SP13 to correct some errors we had encountered during testing. Our upgraded environments are CPMBPC 13 and HANABPC 7:
2029536 (HANABPC 9, CPMBPC 15)
1996680 (HANABPC 8)
2039336 (HANABPC 9)
2047645 (CPMBPC 15)
2031804 (CPMBPC 15)
Is it possible one of these caused the longer run-times?
Thanks for your responses, Vadim. It's clear something has changed, but just what is not apparent.