[ale] who is the fastest bash scripter?

[David S. Jackson]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:00:51PM -0500 Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:11:10PM -0500, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > That's the exact solution several people came up with.  It was pointed out 
> > that jar is very slow and it is faster to use tar.
> 
> No, unzip.  Jar files use the PKZip file format.
> 
> The jar tool is actually written in java.  The jar executable is just a
> wrapper executable that launches a JVM and runs whatever class does the
> jar stuff.  Starting a JVM is extremely expensive, so using unzip
> instead of jar is much faster, especially if it's done within a loop.

No problem.  Just recompress all your jar files with zlib.  :-)

Sorry bout that.  I don't know Java from Guava or Crackatoa.

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