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Mar 6, 2011 at 11:09 comment added Peter.O mattdm... Thanks.. I'm working from only 6 months Linux experience, so I've quite likely used the wrong phrase, but I keep reading about the overheads incurred by unnecessary calls, and in my own experience of testing my own scripts, I've seen many examples where calling printf or sed and also that "unnecessary" cat vs <file does make a dramatic actual run-time difference. when looping, as in my "500 times slower" example.. So it seems that using the shell wherever possible, and allowing a program such as date to batch process is what I mean.. eg. Gilles' Left-Pad-0 example, vs printf
Mar 6, 2011 at 6:03 comment added mattdm Just for clarification — by "system call", you mean "fork/exec/wait, like the system() call", not system call in general. (I mention this because making system calls also has an overhead within a program, because of the user/kernel switch. That's not the particular issue here.)
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