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Re: Using a shell database



On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:12:24 +0100,  wrote:

>zzapper wrote:
>
>> I did have a phase of writing all my "scripts" in Perl, but noticed that they were much slower than
>> their equivalent shell scripts.
>
>
>it depends of a lot of parameters. I use perl when perl makes thinks a 
>lot easier or when there is a lot of content to parse.
>
>if you can read french, i've done my own benches and my conclusion is 
>here : http://khatar.phear.org/shell/bench.html.
>
Mc,
Your benchmark shows zsh being 10X quicker than Perl, that would be the order of difference that I
noticed.
I also have some shells that call perl (to complicate matters!)

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