Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???

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From: Gert Doering
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:00

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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 :(

gert
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From: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/04/27
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