Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:11:04 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970813090658.308P-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970812152451.1820L-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > I was in the process of adding some flexibility to newsyslog, and decided > to just rewrite the darn thing in perl5. > > Essentially I added the ability to datestamp the logfiles, and a couple of > other things. > Anyway, just curious. I'm sure many of us have sysadmin tools written in perl; I do. However, each time my perl scripts run, they weigh down my machine and I wish I had the time to write the programs in C. Each time something in the system is converted from C to perl, the general performance of FreeBSD will appear to be that small amount more sluggish (less zippy, perhaps). There's a software company in Seattle which writes code like this... /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>; danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */
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