uutraffic report (in perl)

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <3374 at convex.UUCP>, tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
> In article <14947 at bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
> |On System V/386, for instance, with all debugging #undef'd and with -O
> |turned on, the latest perl executable *after* both 'strip' and 'mcs -d'
> |subtends 229K, and takes ~5 seconds to load, compile and interpret an
> |in-line script consisting of 'exit 0;'.  

> Which limitations, load time?  Somewhere it does say that perl probably
> isn't good for tiny machines.  My idea of a tiny machine is my diskless
> Sun 3/50 with 4 megabytes.  Here are three successive timings:
> 
> sun% /bin/time perl -e 'exit 0;'
>         4.5 real         0.0 user         0.4 sys
>         1.2 real         0.0 user         0.2 sys
>         1.3 real         0.0 user         0.1 sys

On my high end 386 the timings for a untouched perl (non-stripped, no 
changes to source) are as follows:

/bin/time perl -e 'exit 0;'

          1.4 real         0.0 user         0.1 sys
          0.1 real         0.0 user         0.0 sys
          0.1 real         0.0 user         0.0 sys
  
/bin/time uutraf    # stuff that started this discussion

          0.9 real         0.3 user         0.2 sys

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