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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Bourne vs. C Shells - C Shell is faster.
Message-ID: <162@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 14:14:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 14:14:27 1985
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> [...getting onto a tangent...]
>                     ...  The following setup shaves the script above
> (about 0.4u and 0.4s) down to 0.3u and 0.2s:
> 	#! /bin/awk -f
> 	BEGIN {
> 		x = 1;
> 		while (x < 100)
> 			if (x++ > 10)
> 				print "Hi!" x
> 		exit
> 	}

Near as I can tell, the first line only works if you are running the
C shell under 4BSD, which interprets the #! business.

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}