On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:

> Actually, /bin/kstat is just about the worst example you could have chosen to
> illustrate your point.  /bin/kstat is a *very* thin perl wrapper around the
> Sun::Solaris::Kstat module, which in turn is almost entirely written in C,
> which is in turn just a wrapper around the libkstat(3LIB) C library.

I think that proves Garret's point: for the sake of a "*very* thin perl wrapper
around the Sun::Solaris::Kstat module", one needs to install the whopping great
WOS known as Perl.  If kstat et al were implemented in C, the overhead wouldn't
be required.

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