Well that speaks to the point I'm making. The people who suggested the original slow shell script, are well respected and talented shell programmers. And my "run-of-the-mill" Perl script, beat it. So when someone says, "why use Perl, I can do it faster with a shell script", you better think twice; because maybe the Perl is faster.

Also the optimized shell script only beat the Perl version by a nose, Considering how much more flexible the Perl script is, in processing the files as they are found, run-of-the-mill Perl is likely to be faster, than a run-of-the-mill shell, doing some equivalent task. Shell, with it's constant spawing of awk and sed, etc.; is probably harder to do at optimized speed, compared to Perl.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^2: Myth busted: Shell isn't always faster than Perl by zentara
in thread Myth busted: Shell isn't always faster than Perl by zentara

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