Shell script performance
Tim Iverson
iverson@cisco.com
Thu Dec 11 16:18:00 GMT 1997
If you're running stock b18, I'd guess stat(), not fork/exec (though
fork/exec is really slow, too). Last I checked, stat() actual opens each
file and reads a few bytes to check for symbolic links. IMHO, this is an
incredible waste of time, especially considering that W95/NT already has a
defined symbolic link standard (.lnk files).
I strongly suspect this has changed in b19 and probably Sergey's code, since
I recall that this whole topic was beaten to death and finally resolved
about 6 months ago.
- Tim Iverson
iverson@lionheart-com
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| From: Kevin Hughes <kh@wg.icl.co.uk>
| To: "Gnuwin95 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
| Subject: Shell script performance
| Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:51:39 -0000
|
[paraphrased: cygwin32 bash is incredibly slow + some examples]
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