From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from netcomsv.netcom.com ([163.179.1.9]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2766>; Tue, 13 Apr 1993 16:31:35 -0400
Received: from netapp.UUCP by netcomsv.netcom.com with UUCP (4.1/SMI-4.1)
	id AA20364; Tue, 13 Apr 93 13:31:41 PDT
Received: from ghoti.netapp by netapp.netapp.com (4.1/SMI-4.1)
	id AA15743; Tue, 13 Apr 93 13:26:04 PDT
Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 1993 16:26:04 -0400
From:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
Message-Id: <9304132026.AA15743@netapp.netapp.com>
To:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: speed of rc

John pointed out to me that the rc path search does a stat() before
an exec(), even for an absolute path name. Optimizing out that
stat should take care of the "pus" problem, if indeed that file
is full of lines which say "/tmp/xx".

Disclaimer: I haven't tried to reproduce any of this stuff here yet.
Further disclaimer: I want to offer my apologies for not spending
more time on rc, but things have really never been busier for me
as a programmer.