Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:53:42 -0600 From: Steven A <salyari@cs.uchicago.edu> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERL way too slow on cat operation; me wonders what is going on Message-ID: <20020131215342.A13853@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201312153520.46382-100000@cody.jharris.com>; from nick@rogness.net on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:55:23PM -0600 References: <20020131214829.B13658@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201312153520.46382-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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that don't make a difference. it's not a perl code problem as far as im concerned. i run the same code on debian and it takes 3 seconds. i think it's some kind of freebsd-perl problem or an installation problem. i encourage everyone to find an 80 meg file and then try running the script on it. yours, steve On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:55:23PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Steven A wrote: > > > heh, i am just paranoid. > > Um, the $|=1; tells perl to autoflush STDOUT. It is not a > dangerous command (that I know of). > > > > > -steve > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:51:57PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Steven A wrote: > > > > > > > leave my computers alone! > > > > > > ? Um did I miss something? > > > > > > > > > > > -steve > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:39:21PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Steven A wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > first of all, my uname -a: FreeBSD oberon.cs.uchicago.edu 4.4-RELEASE > > > > > > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001 > > > > > > murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > now: > > > > > > > > > > > > the following perl script takes 8 minutes to execute on both of my > > > > > > freebsd systems (two AMD K6-2 300s): > > > > > > > > > > > > cat 80megfile.ps > perl cat.pl > output.ps > > > > > > > > > > > > cat.pl: > > > > > > while($_ = <STDIN>) { > > > > > > print $_; > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > try cat.pl as: > > > > > > > > > > $|=1; > > > > > > > > > > while (<STDIN>) { > > > > > print $_; > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> > > > > > - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets > > > > > > > > > > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> > > > - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets > > > > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> > - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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