Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > Most likely it says very bad things about getcwd() implementation in Perl
> > compared to sys_getcwd() in the kernel.
>
> No no no--it says very bad things about 'use POSIX', and in general
> about overhead-creep in the perl library.
I ended up calling sys_getcwd from Perl as it's extremely fast. Even
faster if you hard code the syscall number instead of reading the header
file in Perl :-)
However, I was still impressed by the 0.0075s for a pipe/fork/exec.
'use POSIX' is very slow, but Perl's getcwd() is pretty slow too -- it
does the old fashioned directory walk. We cannot blame it for being
portable.
-- Jamie
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