From: mobi p. <mo...@mo...> - 2009-11-18 17:17:29
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> I don't know in what century you live in, and what outdated software > you are using, but it's been a while that operating systems have been > keeping the stuff they read in memory as long as they don't need the > memory for something else. I do not know in what century you live that you own such a language :) > This explains why the following happens: > $ time grep -r NS_COM . > /dev/null > real 0m6.492s > user 0m0.608s > sys 0m2.232s > $ time grep -r NS_COM . > /dev/null > real 0m0.821s > user 0m0.308s > sys 0m0.492s that memory you are talking about would be overwritten during a long session of work. So there is a high chance that second time you will get the same answer as the first one!. And you failed to see the difference, but I am not going to explain it again, because it is obvious your are not interested to see what is positive. Free your mind... I am sure 10 years ago you would have said the same about the full fuse story, but now you are hanging on the mailing list. -- rgrds, mobi phil being mobile, but including technology http://mobiphil.com |