From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 21:21:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439E537B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WW8u-000Pya-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 05:21:44 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id 6286944F6B; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:21:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:21:43 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERL way too slow on cat operation; me wonders what is going on Message-ID: <20020201052143.GD3088@raggedclown.net> References: <20020131212634.A13452@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu> <20020201050637.GA4068@moo.holy.cow> <20020131230950.B15426@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020131230950.B15426@abyss.cs.uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:09:50PM -0600, Steven A wrote: > yea it is a typo > > oops > > this doesnt change anything, i still have the problem > > > cat 80megfile.ps | perl cat.pl > output.ps > > vs > > cat 80megfile.ps | cat - > output.ps > > > the first takes 8 minutes the second takes 3 seconds. > What is the file ? Postscript ? try it with something else, or dd something into it. Just a shot in the dark.. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message