Feeping Creaturism (was Re: Unlimited software warranties)

[Jeff Liebermann]

In article <8451 at rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd at Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) writes:
>rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>
>>Alas, software standards activities are one of the biggest sources of
>>rampant, gratuitous feature frenzy.  Have a look at the "international-
>>ization" goo that wants every program to be at least a page of code, and
>>which has propagated baroque national-collating-sequence requirements into
>>programs that heretofore had nothing to do with natural language issues.

Try this sort benchmark with SCO Unix 3.2.x

/bin/time /bin/sort /etc/termcap > /dev/null
real       24.2		(3.2 v2 sort binary)
user       21.5
sys         0.1

/bin/time /bin/sort.old /etc/termcap > /dev/null
real        1.9		(3.2.0 sort binary)
user        0.9
sys         0.2

The difference is that 3.2.2 sort is intenationalized, posix compliant
and uses shared libraries while 3.2.0 does not.  I was told by SCO
that it was not a problem because the sort program still yields valid
results.  If your pathalias compiles take forever, use the 3.2.0
sort program instead.  Reference Number #300715 reported 9/15/90.


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