Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!nsc!taux01!amos From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Is sh script faster than csh script ? Summary: It's .cshrc Message-ID: <2555@taux01.UUCP> Date: 11 Sep 89 21:31:15 GMT References: <5292@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel Home of the 32532 Lines: 14 Hdate: 12 Elul 5749 In article <5292@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lee@iris.Ucdavis.EDU (Peng Lee) writes: >It seems that csh used a lot more memory, io, and had 2 pages fault. > >Would any unix.wizards out there explain why csh is so slow? Or did I >use the wrong command in the script? If your .cshrc is big, it might slow things down considerably - it's read on every sub-shell. -- Amos Shapir amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322 34 48 E / 32 10 N (My other cpu is a NS32532)