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From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
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To: Steven A <salyari@cs.uchicago.edu>
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Subject: Re: PERL way too slow on cat operation; me wonders what is going on
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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>
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