Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:39:21 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Steven A <salyari@cs.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERL way too slow on cat operation; me wonders what is going on Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201312137380.46382-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <20020131212634.A13452@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, 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 $_;
> }
try cat.pl as:
$|=1;
while (<STDIN>) {
print $_;
}
Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
- Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets
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