Re: GSOC: Interested in submitting a proposal on GNU parallel

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:58:20 -0700 


> On Mar 18, 2026, at 4:58 PM, Federico Alves <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I need to point out that using Python, it's possible to build a
> functionally identical solution to Parallel, but it runs way faster
> than anything ever achieved with Bash+Parallel, which, apparently, is
> coded with Perl.
> 
The execution time of parallel isn’t really the point. That is typically 
dwarfed by the executables run by parallel. I doubt python’s call to fork() is 
a whole lot faster than bash/perl?
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