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The only times I've ever had a bash script run faster than Perl or Python is when it has handed most of the work off to another utility (eg written in C). The
by antod 11y ago
The only times I've ever had a bash script run faster than Perl or Python is when it has handed most of the work off to another utility (eg written in C).
The actual bash processing bits seem much slower than Perl or Python.
- bsg75 11y agoIsn't most heavy work in bash done by piping data to C based utilities, with bash just being the "glue"?