12 May
2023
12 May
'23
4:30 a.m.
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 07:34:28PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
[...]
And since I'm opining, I both liked and didn't like his scripts. I liked
that they were very classic Unix, a pleasant reminder of where we have
come from. What I didn't like was all that data flowing through all
those pipes. Yes, it is simple but it just doesn't scale that well
when you are processing gigabytes of data, which you frequently are
these days.
I believe (and I think I have seen more than once) that on multicore
computer all parts of the pipe will be ran on their own core, if
possible. Thus a script with pipes would give about the simplest way
to modernize this "old school" kind of processing.
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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