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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN