David Leverton wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2008 10:33:22 Steve Long wrote:
>> Here you go (this is on an old machine, so you'll get much quicker times
>> if you try this at home):
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo "$(<run)"
>> #!/bin/bash
>> P='some-crap/god-i-hate-asshats'
>
> I do hope that that isn't directed at anyone in particular.
>
No, but thanks for drawing attention to it.
>> for ((i=0;i<100000;i++)); do echo /usr/share/doc/${P}/examples >
>> /dev/null;
>
>> real 11.25
>
>> real 9.24
>
> So that's what, on the order of 20 microseconds faster for each iteration?
>
Or ~18%. (You shouldn't use the first iteration in general, btw.)
> This is a purely stylistic issue, same as the braces with variable
> expansions.
See my other posts.
> You're free to write your own code however you like, but
> harassing other people to do things your favourite way with no practical
> benefit is just going to annoy everyone.
I'm sorry you feel harrassed by my talking about the basics of
shell-scripting, it wasn't intended like that. Though, given your tone, I
don't think you are feeling harrassed; perhaps you're just feeling
defensive about your trap boo-boo? Whatever, leaving aside the amateur
dramatics, it was more to show how to do the benchmarking than anything
else; I'd have simply said "yes" but that reminded me too much of behaviour
I have criticised in the past.
For the record, I'm sorry if my choice of package name caused any offence to
anyone else. It was a quick thing I knocked off, cp'ed and pasted; at most
I thought it would be taken as a joke when I wrote it, then I didn't check
it through in the correct frame of mind (I have flu and was tired, so just
wanted to send the thing and didn't check the script itself) when I sent
it, and for that I apologise to everyone reading.
