On 2018-06-13, at 07:18:40, Hobart Spitz wrote:

> Cross posted to CMSTSO Pipelines and IBM-MAIN
> 
> Someone shared with me a performance comparison between Pipelines vs.
> native *nix commands, both on OPENVM.
> 
> Under the OPENVM shell, this command ran 75 secs. with a 170M file in BFS:
> 
> $ time cat m170file.data | wc -b
>  
The "cat" is superfluous.  Why not just:
> $ time   wc -b  m170file.data

In fact, you were timing "cat", not "wc".

> This command, also under OPENVM shell with the same file, ran 9 secs.:
> 
> $ cms 'PIPE < /home/....../m170file.data | count bytes | cons'
>  
Won't Pipelines respect a path relative to current working directory?
If not, shame on Pipelines.

-- gil

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