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

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 00:00

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    gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:
: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 :(

Then something is really broken.  Taht's just brain-dead.  You're
running wtih more RAM than I am.   I refuse to believe that my 
Sparc Classic is 100-200 times faster than your 486dx2-66.  Bug
in SCO, maybe?  Who'd'a thunk it?

--tom

--tom
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From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/04/28
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