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From: Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Useful Shell Scripts Network Connections , Logins and Block hacking attempts
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 06:30:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZF3BA/ewnuqT1XTd@tau1.ceti.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230512023428.GK29399@mcvoy.com>

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 07:34:28PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
[...]
> 
> And since I'm opining, I both liked and didn't like his scripts.  I liked
> that they were very classic Unix, a pleasant reminder of where we have 
> come from.  What I didn't like was all that data flowing through all 
> those pipes.  Yes, it is simple but it just doesn't scale that well
> when you are processing gigabytes of data, which you frequently are
> these days.

I believe (and I think I have seen more than once) that on multicore
computer all parts of the pipe will be ran on their own core, if
possible. Thus a script with pipes would give about the simplest way
to modernize this "old school" kind of processing.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

--
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home    **
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-12  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJXSPs92h7yVVJm9UPp06zPQwRy-XkGPDhL-=uVT5sw=hEcLkQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-05-10 23:56 ` [COFF] Fwd: " KenUnix
2023-05-11  0:12   ` [COFF] " Niklas Karlsson
2023-05-11  5:58   ` steve jenkin
2023-05-11  9:18   ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2023-05-11 22:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2023-05-11 22:35       ` segaloco via COFF
2023-05-12  2:13         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-05-12  2:19           ` Adam Thornton
2023-05-12  2:34             ` Larry McVoy
2023-05-12  4:30               ` Tomasz Rola [this message]
2023-05-12  8:34               ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-05-12 13:58                 ` Larry McVoy
2023-05-12  4:24           ` Tomasz Rola
2023-05-12  5:02             ` segaloco via COFF
2023-05-12  8:14           ` Robert Stanford via COFF
2023-05-12 16:40             ` Adam Thornton
2023-05-12 11:42         ` Ralph Corderoy

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