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That will not make it any faster. It's very likely to make it slower.
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by gurpreetsingh13 (Scribe) on Jul 03, 2014 at 03:50 UTC
    Obviously, if you call an external command it will make it more slower.
    My suggestion was to do it separately in a pre-process and thereafter initiate the script, so that it takes the same time.