Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site twitch.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!twitch!grt From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Speed of shell scripts and ls holy wars Message-ID: <220@twitch.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 15:25:35 EDT Article-I.D.: twitch.220 Posted: Wed Aug 14 15:25:35 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 07:40:21 EDT References: <1303@utcsri.UUCP> <93600010@siemens.UUCP> <834@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel Lines: 14 > First, let me reiterate: MOST UNIX MACHINES ARE > [ gigantic NOT ] > V A X E N ! > > Our TRS-80 Model 16 can NOT NOT NOT run a shell script ANYWHERE as fast as > a C program. ls | pr -t -5 takes FOREVER to run! And the Plexus P/35 is Shell scripts do not run so fast on a VAX, either, if it is heavily loaded. I avoid them like the plague expect for setting up and checking the arguments to C programs. A shell program is good if I do not need the output particularly soon, but if I am doing real work, give me a C program. -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ