03-28-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
methyl
My stats do not show waste of CPU power. They show a CPU power saving by using "cat" because "cut" is less efficient at reading files.
So reading the file, writing it to a pipe, and reading from the pipe, utilizing two separate CPU's simultaneously is more efficient than reading it once and using it once? If your CPU benchmarks show that this uses less CPU, frankly, they're wrong. Less total real time maybe, but nothing in that reduces the amount of CPU cut uses -- adding more commands can only add more CPU utilization.
The only performance benefit I can see is the pipe effectively acts as a read-ahead buffer, albeit a highly expensive one. With the power expended for that 1% performance improvement, how much more actual
work could have been done instead by running two instances of
cut on different data sets?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
shamrock
What makes you arrive at the fact that..."cut" is less efficient at reading files than cat.
cut has to read line by line. cat can just read and write huge blocks.
Last edited by Corona688; 03-28-2011 at 02:14 PM..
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