Dallman Ross wrote:
in procmail, you'll need to be able to read in today's date from
a file. You could generate it once daily via cron. It would
contain, e.g.:
TODAY = 20051005
Would there really be that much of a performance hit using:
TODAY = `date +"%Y%m%d"`
instead of reading from a file? After all, the recipe will
still have to spend some cycles loading the file data.
I just ran a test on my system to check this, and my results are:
Reading from a file 10,000 times takes 29 seconds.
Using the date command 10,000 times takes 33 seconds.
So, using the date command adds an additional 4 seconds
(on my slow system - 400mhz PIII w/ 7200RPM HD). Typical
machines in production use today are going to be much faster,
and therefore have less of a difference in performance.
I don't see this as enough of a performance hit to fuss with
adding a cron job just to dump out the date when the date
function will provide the same results.
My two cents, anyway.
Brad/Mr Duck
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