[ale] who is the fastest bash scripter?

[Andrew Newton]

Actually, you could use fastjar, which is the jar utility that comes 
with gcc-gcj.  I'm not sure why, but it seems to be installed on my 
RedHat 8 system (I must have asked for gcj during install).

jar (fastjar) 0.92-gcc

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Jason Day 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.
> 
> Jason

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