[asterisk-users] better enumlookup handler

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 22:54 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Slightly off-topic:

Yeah.

> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> 
> > I guess a code audit will tell.  :-)  Although I got an impression that
> > it was written in PHP.  I'm not much of a fan of PHP.  Don't really see
> > the point for something so simple.  Bash, Perl (without the overhead of
> > PHP) or even an executable-from-C seems more appropriate for something
> > as relatively simple.
> 
> Shell scripts are often very inefficient with respect to execution time.

Indeed.

> They often use subprocesses and other programs for relatively simple
> tasks.

Agreed.

> While running a simple bash (or better: dash) is faster than
> running perl or php, running a modestly complex shell script is often
> slower than running the same thing with perl.

Right.  Execve() and library loading and so forth.  Understood
completely.

All of that is why I did mention executable-from-C though.  :-)

b.

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