[Xitami] Php

Thomas J. Hruska xitami@lists.xitami.org
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:11:44 -0500


At 01:02 PM 7/25/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>  here is a Perl wrapper for you to use
>
>On DOS-based machines, a BAT file can do the same and probably with less
>overhead. Launching an instance of Perl needs a couple megs of RAM; an
>instance of COMMAND (or CMD) to process a BAT file is under 64K. 
>
>I doubt there is a practical difference unless you run a P-133 with
>32Megs, as I was doing until this week. 

Thanks, I will take note of this.  I know the Perl interpreter consumes a
lot of resources, but I needed something quick and easy.  However, I don't
notice much of a difference anymore since I use a Dual PIII 500 machine
with 384MB RAM.  I used to use a 486 DX2/66 with 8MB RAM.


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