From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2188 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 12:25:13 -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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=no 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 12:25:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 86798 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 12:25:04 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 12:25:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 15789 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2005 12:24:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9682 Received: (qmail 15778 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 12:24:56 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 12:24:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 85668 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2005 12:24:56 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Nov 2005 12:24:54 -0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebzq2-0003VO-Cj for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:02 +0100 Received: from 212.84.119.241 ([212.84.119.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:02 +0100 Received: from david by 212.84.119.241 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: zzapper Subject: Re: Using a shell database Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:19:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: <4379D0A8.7010204@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.84.119.241 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Sender: news On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:12:24 +0100, wrote: >zzapper wrote: > >> I did have a phase of writing all my "scripts" in Perl, but noticed that they were much slower than >> their equivalent shell scripts. > > >it depends of a lot of parameters. I use perl when perl makes thinks a >lot easier or when there is a lot of content to parse. > >if you can read french, i've done my own benches and my conclusion is >here : http://khatar.phear.org/shell/bench.html. > Mc, Your benchmark shows zsh being 10X quicker than Perl, that would be the order of difference that I noticed. I also have some shells that call perl (to complicate matters!) -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/