On 05/19/2010 01:13 PM, Troels Henriksen wrote:
I'm wondering, would it speed up the program if the script spawned a background process for every entry in $PATH? I imagine quite a lot of the runtime is spent waiting for I/O, so simple threading would be a win. That said, I don't think I've ever tried parallelising a shell script.
Sounds plausible. I'll try it when I get time. Elmo Todurov
