Speed of shell scripts and ls holy wars
G.R.Tomasevich
grt at twitch.UUCP
Thu Aug 15 05:25:35 AEST 1985
> First, let me reiterate: MOST UNIX MACHINES ARE
> [ gigantic NOT ]
> V A X E N !
>
> Our TRS-80 Model 16 can NOT NOT NOT run a shell script ANYWHERE as fast as
> a C program. ls | pr -t -5 takes FOREVER to run! And the Plexus P/35 is
Shell scripts do not run so fast on a VAX, either, if it is heavily loaded.
I avoid them like the plague expect for setting up and checking the
arguments to C programs. A shell program is good if I do not need the
output particularly soon, but if I am doing real work, give me a C program.
--
George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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