On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 02:44:18PM EST, Paul Jarc wrote: > Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering if I could avoid the overhead of starting and > > terminating the sleep child process by using a different strategy. > > Instead of bash, you could use a scripting language that has sleep as > a built-in function. Python, Perl, Guile, Ruby, Haskell...
I also thought or rewriting my scripts in C. I would imagine the linux implementation of the sleep() function does not result in anything besides some system call or other? Thanks, CJ
