tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (01/10/91)
I rewrote the is_able.chk and is_able.c stuff last night with encouraging results. Although the user time it takes is 10% slower in perl than in C/sh, the system time, which is by far the bulk of the run, is merly 1/10th in perl what it is in C/sh, so this is a big time win overall. Some of the components I built in doing this should be callable by the other *.chk things (reusable components and all). It also works better as well as faster: the shell blows up really easily when making words out of the globs. Perl blows up much less easily, and for those rare cases it does (/usr/man/man*/*.*), I fall back on my all-in-perl &SHglob function to expand it for me. I'm still trying to figure out how to collect on the keywords from up in the header of the root article to this posting. :-) --tom