> -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Funck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:55 PM [...] > I should add that this test was run on a 2 processor Xeon, which > has to physical cpus + 2 virtual (hyper-threaded) cpus. Thus, if > pperl works by letting each sub-process run (it forks 5 by default) > then it possible that a good deal of the speed up was derived from > increased parallelism.
Bart reminded me off-line: : If pperl worked like that, you'd get garbled output from formail, as : the N processes all tried to write the same output descriptor at once.
