-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 07:05:03PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > > *samueloph@teste:~/foo$ time ( for i in $(seq 0 9999) ; do touch $i ; done > > )real 0m10.245suser 0m3.332ssys 0m1.576s* > > Using shell built-in ">" to create 10000 files: > > > > *samueloph@teste:~/foo$ time ( for i in $(seq 0 9999) ; do > $i ; done > > )real 0m0.742suser 0m0.064ssys 0m0.120s* > > > > ">" is at least 10x faster than touch. > > Your spirit of healthy scepticism is admirable but what these > tests compare is not so much the time it takes to create a file > with ">" vs touch(1) than the time it takes to create a process > relative to the time it takes for the shell to iterate through > a for() loop.
Very true :-/ - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbG1rEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYX3gCdEf5AmkWnmurMRwYfFViyCRcq 6PsAnRtT6Ek0UC6w8aAZSb53FAo74sIk =A74R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
