tkhattra

I recall a fork/exec heavy shell script at a previous job that ran about an order of magnitude (~25s vs 3s) slower on Solaris/SparcV9 vs Linux/Intel P3 circa 2003. The standard retort back in those days was to rewrite it in Perl.

sure, they shoulda woulda coulda, but isn't that the innovator's dilemma?

rip. i got a chuckle out of this trivia on her old website:

> Rob Pike didn't really name my favorite editor after me.

From Filippo's post: "Sure, papers about an abacus and a dog are funny and can make you look smart and contrarian on forums."