Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> So, using xargs is fundamentally better as far as memory consumption is
> concerned. Performance should never be an issue except maybe in
> pathological cases. This silly analysis does not even take into account
> the effects from all the memory allocation you'll have to do to for a
> large number of arguments.

just being pedantic but ignoring performance while discussing memory 
seems a bit short sighted - for e.g. 1M files an 'xargs -L' will create
1M fork()'s instead of 1, which will change the execution time 
significantly..

but whatever.. this thread is annoying me :)

- Chris