>For a test file with 24884706 bytes in /tmp (=tmpfs/ramdisk): >- GNU "cksum" currently takes 181 seconds for 1000 iterations >- AST "cksum" (called as external program) currently takes 244 seconds >for 1000 iterations (partially caused by dragging more shared libraries >around, startup time issue with libast-based applications and some other >things) >- AST "cksum" called as ksh93 builtin takes 216 seconds for 1000 >iterations (e.g. ~~24 seconds are saved compared to the external >application) >
On the same file? I would suggest that that is not a proper benchmark for cksum. Why can't you run it once? Casper
