On Friday 13 November 2009 19:39:12 Shane wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:18 -0500, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: > > Now this is just on a laptop, and a very crude measurement, but it sure > > looks like there's a bit of overhead in them thar named pipes and cat! > > Apples and oranges. Why did you introduce the "-c" ???. > Good catch; processing 200 10K files gives these numbers:
Processing by simple catenation... real 0m0.485s user 0m0.424s sys 0m0.020s Processing by named pipe... real 0m0.483s user 0m0.432s sys 0m0.008s Leslie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390