comment on

I'm more amazed that it took 35 seconds in NoteTab light than I am that it only took 2 seconds in perl. 35,000 lines really isn't that much that it should take so long. That's only 1000 lines per second, which I would say is pretty abysmal.

Update: just out of curiosity, I tried doing a single-word replacement on a 35,000 line file (where every line has the word being replaced) in vim. Like your case, I don't know any way to get vim to time it for me, but based on wallclock seconds it took 7-8 seconds. On an UltraSparc running at a whopping 350mhz with an enourmous 256mb of ram. On the same machine, it took perl 1.137s.

This reiterates how horribly slow NoteTab is doing something that seems relatively simple to do. :-)

Update: I agree strongly with ww's sentiment about not starting an editor war. That certainly wasn't my intention, and hopefully it wasn't seen that way.

In reply to Re: Word replace - notetab light vs perl by revdiablo
in thread Word replace - notetab light vs perl by kiat

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


Do you know where your variables are?
	PerlMonks