Re: Script performance on Mac OS X
Re: Script performance on Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Script performance on Mac OS X
- From: Simon Kornblith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:59:29 -0400
On 7/10/02 9:09 PM, "Steven Angier" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 11/7/02 11:01 AM, "Timothy Bates" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I have been porting some of our customers' scripts to Mac OS X, only to find
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>> that the performance is woeful. Something that took 8 minutes on a beige G3
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>> running OS 9 now takes 20 minutes on a G4/450 running Mac OS X. (And of that
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>> 20 minutes, the CPU was hogged for 15:32)
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> What's the script? Most of mine run much faster, not slower.
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> Which apps? Are they all X apps, or some classic? Are you calling Extensions
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> in the classic box?
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The script app in question does a great deal of text processing in memory,
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essentially it parses custom tags out of html template documents and builds
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websites. No apps are involved and no third party scripting additions are
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used.
Learn how to use sed on Mac OS X and you may not even need a script...Type
"man sed" at the terminal for more info.
Simon
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