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[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Oct 11 10:21 , Kenneth Brody gie sprachen "Vyizdur zomen 
emororz izaziz zander izorziz", and continued with: 

> Fairlight wrote:
> [...]
> > *laugh*  You didn't look very hard at how light and fast bash is compared
> > to perl, did you?  Witness OSR 5.0.6 with:
> > 
> > > ls -l /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/bin/ksh
> > ---x--x--x   1 bin      bin       156764 Feb 14  2003 /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/bin/ksh*
> > 
> > > ls -l /opt/K/SCO/perl/5.8.1Ac/usr/bin/perl
> > -rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin         9668 Jul  5 21:22 /opt/K/SCO/perl/5.8.1Ac/usr/bin/perl*
> > 
> > Yup.  Ksh is -so- much lighter, Brian.
> [...]

> If the executable is only 9-1/2K, I doubt there's much in it
> besides some startup code and calls to a shared library.

> Here's from a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE system:

> -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 Sep 13 11:59 /usr/bin/perl
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  614824 Sep 13 11:59 /usr/lib/libperl.so.3

-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  851158 Oct  9 10:23 /usr/lib/libperl.a
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  614824 Oct  9 10:23 /usr/lib/libperl.so.3
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  872964 Oct  9 10:23 /usr/lib/libperl_p.a

Bill
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