From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6620 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 13:28:15 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 13:28:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 31472 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 13:28:08 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 13:28:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 29710 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2005 13:28:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9683 Received: (qmail 29700 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 13:28:01 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 13:28:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 30524 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 13:28:00 -0000 Received: from mailhost.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.200.152) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 13:27:59 -0000 Received: from [130.79.188.217] (sys-univ-x.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.188.217]) by mailhost.u-strasbg.fr (8.13.3/jtpda-5.5pre1) with ESMTP id jAFDRwWo055065 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:27:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4379E25C.60901@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:27:56 +0100 From: Marc Chantreux User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Using a shell database References: <4379D0A8.7010204@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (mailhost.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.200.152]); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:27:58 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87/1173/Tue Nov 15 13:43:30 2005 on mr2.u-strasbg.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean zzapper wrote: > Mc, > Your benchmark shows zsh being 10X quicker than Perl, that would be the order of difference that I > noticed. As my conclusion says (sorryn it's in french), it will only be true with few content to process : perl compute things very faster than shell. In this benchmark, perl is slower because you have to launch a huge binary (perl interpreter) to execute a very small task. regards mc