grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (08/14/85)
> First, let me reiterate: MOST UNIX MACHINES ARE > [ gigantic NOT ] > V A X E N ! > > Our TRS-80 Model 16 can NOT NOT NOT run a shell script ANYWHERE as fast as > a C program. ls | pr -t -5 takes FOREVER to run! And the Plexus P/35 is Shell scripts do not run so fast on a VAX, either, if it is heavily loaded. I avoid them like the plague expect for setting up and checking the arguments to C programs. A shell program is good if I do not need the output particularly soon, but if I am doing real work, give me a C program. -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ