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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:39:47 +0300
From:      Igor Roboul <igorr@sysadm.stc>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PERL way too slow on cat operation; me wonders what is going on
Message-ID:  <20020201093947.GA1298@sysadm.stc>
In-Reply-To: <20020131212634.A13452@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu>
References:  <20020131212634.A13452@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu>

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:26:35PM -0600, Steven A wrote:
> hi,
> 
> first of all, my uname -a: FreeBSD oberon.cs.uchicago.edu 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001     murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> 
> 
> now:
> 
> the following perl script takes 8 minutes to execute on both of my freebsd systems (two AMD K6-2 300s):
> 
> cat 80megfile.ps > perl cat.pl > output.ps
> 
> cat.pl:
> while($_ = <STDIN>) {
>         print $_;
> }

%time ./t1
6.570u 1.391s 0:12.31 64.6%     19+275k 533+515io 0pf+0w
%time ./t2
0.008u 1.321s 0:08.13 16.2%     74+221k 533+516io 0pf+0w

%cat t1
cat test | ./cat.pl >test.res
%cat t2
cat test | cat - >test.res
%cat cat.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

while(<>) {
        print;
}

%uname -a
FreeBSD sysadm.stc 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 20
17:42:47 MSK 2001     root@sysadm.stc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYSADM
i386

%perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd



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