On 12/27/18 11:32 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> You're whacking moles. Use a profiler. That's what they're for.
>
> I've already shown that $() is a major problem to slow down the speed
> and I have reduced using its usage in my code and significantly
> improved the performance.
This isn't a major deductive leap, since command substitution forks a
child and reads through a pipe. Forking is always more expensive than
not.
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