Michael, I didn't say that Perl was slower. I didn't know the difference between the overhead of the Perl interprter for a built-in function and calling a shell command from the Perl code because in both cases Perl commands were to be executed and interprted. My concern was the portability which recommended Perl.
Thanks, Ahmed ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Fowler To: Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Nafiseh Saberi Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: Re: shell in perl On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:18:15AM -0800, Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed wrote: > Performance wise, both are almost the same, I think. But using the Perl > built-in functions would help make your code more portable. Given that a shell script has to fork and exec a seperate process for almost every line of code I would think the opposite, that Perl would be faster. Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
