Program inefficiency?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-09-29, hall.jeff at gmail.com <hall.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what an shell+sed script is...

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_05_01.html#sect_05_01_01
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/chap_05.html
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash

Unfortuantely it appears you're using Windows (a partucular bad
choice for this sort of file processing).  You can, however,
get bash and sed for Windows if you wish:

http://www.cygwin.com/

> In case it helps... We started with only 6 loops of replacecycle() but
> had to keep adding progressively more as we found more and more links
> with lots of spaces in them...

I would think with the correct RE's you'd only have to call it
once.

> As we did that, the program's time grew progressively longer
> but the length grew multiplicatively with the added number of
> cycles... This is exactly what I would have expected and it
> leads me to believe that the problem does not lie in the
> replacecycle() def but in the masseditor() def... *shrug*

As the program runs on progressively more files does the
process's memory usage grow without bounds?  Does the machine
start swapping?

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