Re: Extreme Example of TMTOWTDI

[Juerd]

When using external files, think about your operating system's caching. For example:

2;0 juerd@ouranos:/usr/share/dict$ du -ch | grep total
52M     total
2;0 juerd@ouranos:/usr/share/dict$ time cat * > /dev/null

real    0m4.382s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.260s
2;0 juerd@ouranos:/usr/share/dict$ time cat * > /dev/null

real    0m0.255s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m0.230s

So always try your first solution AGAIN when you tried your second.

U28geW91IGNhbiBhbGwgcm90MTMgY
W5kIHBhY2soKS4gQnV0IGRvIHlvdS
ByZWNvZ25pc2UgQmFzZTY0IHdoZW4
geW91IHNlZSBpdD8gIC0tIEp1ZXJk