On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:32:04PM +0200, Mic J wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Christer Solskogen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hyjial wrote: > >> > > Her is an interview with Espie > It contains many hints to research from > I also thought Espie said that perl enabled them to do some stuff that > other tools wouldnt > and accompplish it faster, i actually thought it was this interview > but couldnt find it with a quick glance. > > http://mongers.org/openbsd/interview-espie-ports
perl offers faster software development. perl is not fast. Just saying. Althought, I think that's what you meant too. # sysctl hw.model hw.physmem hw.model=SUNW,SPARCclassic, TMS390S10 @ 50 MHz, on-chip FPU hw.physmem=24801280 # time pkg_info gettext-0.16.1 GNU gettext libiconv-1.9.2p5 character set conversion library lrzsz-0.12.20p0 receive/send files via X/Y/ZMODEM protocol mutt-1.4.2.3 tty-based e-mail client stunnel-4.20 SSL encryption wrapper for standard network daemons uucp-1.07p2 UUCP suite 0m22.57s real 0m13.05s user 0m6.44s system 22 seconds to list one folder and open 6 files :) I doubt it took 1 seconds before the move to perl on that computer. -- Hugo Villeneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://EINTR.net/