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Practically any command line utility? eg. ls, cat, sort, uniq, ps, what have you. I'm constantly amazed that make(1) can do successive recompiles of a 50k LOC
by syncsynchalt 13y ago
Practically any command line utility? eg. ls, cat, sort, uniq, ps, what have you.
I'm constantly amazed that make(1) can do successive recompiles of a 50k LOC project in less than a second, while gradle / maven / etc takes upwards of a minute.
- democracy 13y agoGood example, but we have heaps of command-line utilities written in Java. Many complaints but never about performance or start-up time. For some low-level programs executed hundreds of time per session (like "ls") I agree it adds up and might cause frustration. Java is a bad choice for this niche, but you are not going to write them in Python anyway, aren't you? PS: Just tested "LS" in Java, less than a second run, I could personally live with that.