Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Faster depend written in Perl | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:58:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Ian Burrell <> |
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> > I assume this patch is for machines with no math unit only, > because on a machines with coprocessor, floating point arithmetic > runs faster than integer. >
I think this is only true for Alphas and maybe Pentiums. On machines with coprocessors, the Perl version should run faster since Perl more efficient especially at I/O and regexp matching. And the depend script is really I/O bound since it needs to read the entire Linux source tree.
- Ian
-- -- Ian Burrell == iburrell@leland.stanford.edu ** <URL:http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~iburrell/> O'Toole's commentary: Murphy was an optimist.
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