python vs awk for simple sysamin tasks
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Fri Jun 4 19:17:12 EDT 2004
Steve Lamb <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> wrote:
> >> It is amazing how much shell bogs down when you're running it
> >> over several hundred thousand directories. :P
>
> > Same would be true for Python here.
>
> Not as much as shell. With shell you have thousands upon
> thousands of fork/execs getting in the way. In the case I am
> thinking of rewriting the shell script into Perl and doing all the
> logic processing internally cut the run time down from 7-8 hours
> down to *2*. I have seen similar perfomance numbers from Python
> when compared to shell though not on that scale. I mean the same
> could be said for C, or Assembly. Yes, iterations over large sets
> of data is going to increase runtimes. However there are
> inefficiencies not present in a scripting language which are
> present in shell which make it exceptionally longer to run.
4x faster? Not very impressive. I suspect that it's poor quality shell
script to begin with. Would you post this script, so that others can
correct your misguided perception?
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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
No, I will not fix your computer! I'll reformat your harddisk, though.
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