A small followup - after rereading Henk Langeveld timings (I was hoping he had used the same file as I reported), I noticed his file size is something like 2.5 times what I had used.
So took that file and cat'd it 3 times and tried again. On all of the fast tests, it's what one expects you multiply the number I reported by roughly 3. For bash and ksh it's still reasonable in that you still multiply by about 3. zsh however I killed after 7 minutes. To be fair to zsh, I don't know of a way to use read to read an array variable, so I had to add an assignment inside the loop. _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
