On Friday 13 November 2009 19:39:12 Shane wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:18 -0500, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
> > Now this is just on a laptop, and a very crude measurement, but it sure
> > looks like there's a bit of overhead in them thar named pipes and cat!
>
> Apples and oranges. Why did you introduce the "-c" ???.
>
Good catch; processing 200 10K files gives these numbers:
Processing by simple catenation...
real 0m0.485s
user 0m0.424s
sys 0m0.020s
Processing by named pipe...
real 0m0.483s
user 0m0.432s
sys 0m0.008s
Leslie
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