<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"leam hall" <leamhall@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 24, 2016 12:55:03 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Bash vs Perl<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">I'm not sure I know a lot of Ruby either, but the logic is the same. Calling sub-programs is expensive in terms of minute measurements. Overall, if you fork 25 time in one day, what's the actual impact? If you fork 2500 times a second for several hours straight, then you probably want a compiled language.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't have a day to write, compile, test and deal with SIGSEGV in one day. I do have time to do it in Perl. In my example I'm trying to convert data or look for data in a large dataset. In the sqlite3 example with many rows I'm storing file attributes or a catalog of files in SQL format. I'uu fork and use find to feed me the file list and then I'll do everything else in on process.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>