I'm sorry I forgot to include this in my initial message. I found no difference in performance time or memory usage (with a small file), so that does not seem to be an advantage.
And I am serious about this--I really want to know. Is there any good reason to have a separate C program? On Mon, May 3, 2021, at 16:28, Greg Reagle wrote: > Would sbase suck less if the program head, which is currently a C > program of 77 lines, were replaced with something like > #!/bin/sh > sed "$1"q > > I know that it would need to be a bit more elaborate than that to > handle the -n flag, but still. Is there any advantage to having a > separate C program? >
