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Article #306Re: SVR3 Utilities (Was: Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3)
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 21:46
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 21:46
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In article <18948@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: >Well, I do doubt it. Here is a collection of examples. It should be >obvious that the pipe loses out over the single C command. Sure, running the general merge-sort utility sure slows it down. But 'who|wc -l' is so close in performance on this (relatively puny) system that it would take a practically infinite number of invocations before it would repay the resources that would have to be spent to install the special-purpose who -q hack. That, after all, was the point of the comments against such hacks.
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