[MacPerl] Is MacPerl -too- Efficient?!?

[Christian Schaller <schaller@spuds.lpl.arizona.edu>]

Howdy. Is MacPerl perhaps -too- efficient? A few hours ago, I had
to change two lines in each of over a thousand text files scattered
across 5 Jaz disks (which are sources for a set of data product CDs
that I'm working on). After writing a recursive perl droplet to
handle the job -- taking a whole hour and a half to do so -- I set
about to what I figured would be the long task of watching MacPerl
chug through the--

--and then it was done! In the blink of an eye. About 1500 files on
those 5 Jaz disks. Honestly, the biggest chunk of time taken up
was for my Jaz drive to spin up to mount them and down to unmount
them.

So again: Is MacPerl too efficient? I didn't even get the chance to
drink my coffee!

:-)

--Chris Schaller

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Christian J. Schaller                            Applications Systems Analyst
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory                 schaller@spuds.lpl.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona               http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~schaller/
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077                                            520/621-7200



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