Why is 27 special?

2002-10-10 Thread _brian_d_foy
i'm back to fooling around with Mac::iTunes again. i took a week off after the Mac OS X Conference because i had been thinking about it too much. [ side note: never trust an audience. i let them access (through Apache::iTunes) my iTunes (on the G3 projecting the fancy powerpoint on the screen

What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread Brigham Mecham
Hello Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one. I am comparing the run time of a perl program I wrote. Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know but could find out) I am seeing that the Mac takes 14 seconds to complete what

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread Ask Solem Hoel
Quoting Brigham Mecham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one. I am comparing the run time of a perl program I wrote. Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know but could find out) I am seeing

Re: Why is 27 special?

2002-10-10 Thread Peter N Lewis
At 3:09 -0500 10/10/02, _brian_d_foy wrote: this means that the 20 fixed bytes between the volume name and the date, which are \000 in every case i looked at, is really 27 - (length of volume name). i can name partitions with names up to 27 characters, but if i go past that it look like it

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread Ward W. Vuillemot
What is the script? If you truly think you have an optimization problem on the Mac, then send us the script -- assuming it is of reasonable size. Are you doing something in Perl that is really a Windows-specific task...are you running Perl within Mac OS X or through Fink packages...do you

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread James Stepanek
--- Brigham Mecham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one. I am comparing the run time of a perl program I wrote. Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know but could find out) I am

Re: Why is 27 special?

2002-10-10 Thread Gregory Cranz
Just a note: I don't know if this is related or not, but recently I had a situation where I was attempting to back up OS/X borne files to an OS/9 server. They had lengthy filenames. Every time I tried doing a 'drag-copy' I received an error -35 message. After breaking the sub-folders down

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread ellem
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:31 PM, Brigham Mecham wrote: Hello Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one. I am comparing the run time of a perl program I wrote. Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know but

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Stephenson
Has anyone ran a Benchmark test on their OS X Mac? I'm a bit curious to see how Perl on OS X stacks up against other systems. I can try to run it on my iBook 366 ;) -- Bill Stephenson From: Gregory Cranz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:54:42 -0400 To: Brigham Mecham [EMAIL

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Stephenson wrote: Has anyone ran a Benchmark test on their OS X Mac? I'm a bit curious to see how Perl on OS X stacks up against other systems. Particularly interesting would be a cross comparison among, say, OSX, pure Darwin, a PPC version of Linux, and maybe PPC

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-10 Thread Andrew Brosnan
I didn't write to scripts below, but they are fun to play with. Obviously some adjustment would be needed to compare across systems. # #!/usr/bin/perl Benchmark_demo1 #Measure CPU usage of a some portion of a program use Benchmark; #

gd croaking

2002-10-10 Thread Puneet Kishor
Folks, I haven't messed with the OS at all. Perl 5.6.0 that comes with OS X 10.2. I built gd 1.8.4 using Scott Anguish's directions on stepwise (as I have done before), and that worked just as expected. Then I built a specific perl module that helps makes maps (used to work fine on

Re: Installation of LWP fails

2002-10-10 Thread David Wheeler
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 11:38 PM, Adam Fishman wrote: (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h) Well, do you have this file? David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation of LWP fails

2002-10-10 Thread Palle Bo Nielsen
I have exactly the same problem on a machine at work running Mac OS X Server 10.2. Don't know how to fix it. Would like to be able to run the LWP module too. PowerPalle On torsdag, okt 10, 2002, at 19:17 Europe/Copenhagen, David Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 11:38 PM,

Re: Adding path to @INC for use with web server

2002-10-10 Thread gene
From: Adam Witney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:09:38 +0100 To: MacOS X perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding path to @INC for use with web server Hi, Searching the archives I have been able to find out how to get Perl to search other paths for modules when invoked from

Re: gd croaking

2002-10-10 Thread Puneet Kishor
Ok, here's some more info that I was able to put together. I built gd and supporting libraries using gcc 3.1. To build another program (that actually eventually generates a perl module), I had to revert to gcc 2.x. I, then, reverted back to gcc 3.x and built the perl specific module. Running

Jaguar Perl 5.6.0 dyld error

2002-10-10 Thread Kelly Thomas Wood
Hoping someone has seen this. I've read all about the dyld: perl Undefined symbol: errors when upgrading to 5.8.0, but I'm running into these errors while still running 5.6.0 on certain modules. Specifically, I'm trying to use Jeff Horwitz's Authen::Krb5 and get the following output: dyld:

Re: gd croaking

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Gomez
Puneet, Think I had same issues, and gave up and used gnuplot instead for some graph creation, as it does put out graphs like the ones I use on my site well (http://www.dkgomez.com/cgi-bin/housetemp.pl). Think I used fink to do the install of gnuplot Dave Gomez On 10/10/02 2:27 PM, Puneet

OT Java pseudo-benchmark (was Re: What up with the mac)

2002-10-10 Thread Joel Rees
Okay, here's the Java program I was talking about, since someone might want it and I'm going to be off-list for a while: -begin code /** * Let's try the Factorial in BigInteger * * @author Joel Rees, Altech Corporation, Esaka, Japan * Copyright