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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:53:42 -0600
From:      Steven A <salyari@cs.uchicago.edu>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PERL way too slow on cat operation; me wonders what is going on
Message-ID:  <20020131215342.A13853@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201312153520.46382-100000@cody.jharris.com>; from nick@rogness.net on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:55:23PM -0600
References:  <20020131214829.B13658@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201312153520.46382-100000@cody.jharris.com>

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that don't make a difference.

it's not a perl code problem as far as im concerned.

i run the same code on debian and it takes 3 seconds.

i think it's some kind of freebsd-perl problem or an installation problem.

i encourage everyone to find an 80 meg file and then try running the script on it.

yours,
steve

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:55:23PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Steven A wrote:
> 
> > heh, i am just paranoid.
> 
> 	Um, the $|=1; tells perl to autoflush STDOUT.  It is not a
> 	dangerous command (that I know of).
> 
> > 
> > -steve
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:51:57PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Steven A wrote:
> > > 
> > > > leave my computers alone!
> > > 
> > > 	? Um did I miss something?
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -steve
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:39:21PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Steven A wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > first of all, my uname -a: FreeBSD oberon.cs.uchicago.edu 4.4-RELEASE
> > > > > > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001
> > > > > > murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > now:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > the following perl script takes 8 minutes to execute on both of my
> > > > > > freebsd systems (two AMD K6-2 300s):
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > cat 80megfile.ps > perl cat.pl > output.ps
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > cat.pl:
> > > > > > while($_ = <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
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
> > >  - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets
> > 
> 
> Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
>  - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets

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