Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:35:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Dan Papasian <bugg@bugg.strangled.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which(1), rewritten in C? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003022232310.301-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <20000302195937.F14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Dan Papasian <bugg@bugg.strangled.net> [000302 18:17] wrote: > > While this may sound crazy, I was tired of 'which' taking a long > > time to complete on my 486 dx4/100 when it was under extereme > > pressure, so I rewrote it in C :) > > > > ...snip > > > NOTE: > > This version of which has exactly the same behavior. > > Also, the above test was not performed when the box was > > under load.. and on slower machines/under load, the > > differences are of course, more noticable. > > You may all go ahead and call me crazy now. > > > > ...I've got the fear of posting the source, but what the heck, > > getting nitpicked is good education :) > > > > http://bugg.strangled.net/which.c > > > > Any flames^Wthoughts? > > It doesn't seem to handle multiple arguments. File a PR and fix > the issues and I'll look at getting it into post 4.0. Hey Alfred, what Perl program is he talking about? Which is a builtin for csh and tcsh (my shells). Or is he talking about some other 'which'? > > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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