[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.
Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@crosswinds.net
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