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Article #4591Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother??? - Timing PERL startup
From: Barry Roomberg
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00
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In article <D7oxtF.Kw@greenie.muc.de>, gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) says: > >Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes: > >>Oh my! But perl really is very slow to start up: on my abysmally slow >>and overloaded sparc classic, it takes 4.58 user seconds and 14.22 >>systems seconds to run an empty perl program -- ONE HUNDRED TIMES. >>That's a whopping 0.0458 user seconds and 0.1422 system seconds per >>run. Obviously this is too much overhead for a small program. > >Ummm... on my SCO Unix machine (486dx2-66, 40 Mb RAM), it takes about 5-10 >seconds to start up *per invocation*... now *that* is what I'd call slow >startup :( > On MY SCO Unix machine (pentium 90, 128 MB ram, 30 users using the Oracle database) is takes 0.50 user seconds and 2.00 system seconds to run a script that contains "echo ^D | perl", 100 times. Seems like it's time for you guys to upgrade.
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