Bruno Jargot wrote:
The benchmark is wrong: /bin/ptime starts a new process and the shell can't use its built in commands.
No, you didn't read what I wrote.
So it appears that in terms of elapsed time the old C binary is ~ 2.5xfaster than the 'new new' mechanism, when not run as a ksh93 builtin.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org