Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:52:56 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob ьstergaard wrote:
> > If you feel it's too hard to write use scanf(), use sh, awk, perl > > etc. which all have their own implementations that appear to have > > served UNIX quite well for a long while. > > Witness ten lines of vmstat output taking 300+ millions of clock cycles.
Would the esteemed sir care to check where these cycles are spent? How about "traversing page tables of every damn process out there"? Doesn't sound like a string operation to me...
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