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On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:09:47AM -0400, bulk 88 wrote: > Is ExtUtils::Command a suitable replacement for natively calling the shell, > performance wise? I looked at ExtUtils::Command's cp/copy, and from a In the general case, no. Definitely not. But this case is more concerned with portability, maintainability and reliability than speed. There are plenty of other steps in the release process which are slower than this. > On other OSes, prefetching or hinting to the IO scheduler that we are > doing sequential reading will serialize and buffer instead of interleave the > reads. On others OSes, zero copy DMA to DMA copying is done with > kernel help. A for loop through stdio does none of that. Sure, but in this case, the scripts will immediately block awaiting the output, on a local machine which is only being used interactively for this task, so disk IO speed is what's going to matter, not how to reduce CPU use. Ultimately, for the release process, we care about elapsed operator time, reliability, and portability. The resources used to get a release don't are secondary, as long as they aren't so excessive as to impact on the primary concerns. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next