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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: How to compile a shell script?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.034303.20282@news.eng.convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- References: <1992Jul21.121804.24643@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:43:03 GMT
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- From the keyboard of chung@cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Chung):
- : Is there any way I can compile a shell script file so that it can
- :run faster?
-
- Not significantly. The problem is that even if you compile something
- like:
-
- while read line; do
- echo `echo $line | tr ' ' '\12' | sort -n | tr '\12' ' '`
- done
-
- It's still too damn slow. You have to grok the logic and
- rewrite. It needs a human.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- BASIC: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in
- that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
-