Hello mark,

On 14 Jun 15 17:17, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I don't care much for saving resources on a 6-core machine with
 NB>> hyperthreading and 16gb ram.

 ml> me either, really... not on this box with 8 4ghz cores and 16gb RAM...
 ml> don't care about that hyperthreading mess, either ;) O:)

It's almost like you don't even realize you just tried to one-up me again above. :(

Either way, If you're running an intel machine, and you don't have the
5960X processor, then you're most likely running a quad-core system with
hyperthreading - which will display 8 physical cores. If you're running an
AMD 8-core machine, they're on par with Intel's higher end quad cores. Go
ahead and look up the benchmarks. I did my studying when I built my new
machine.

I ended up going with the 5930K, 6-core with hyperthreading makes 12
physical cores. Almost a grand cheaper than the 5960X also. But I'm sure
you knew all of that already. :)

One thing is for certain, I'm definitely not going to waste it on Fidonet
related crap. :)

 ml> it wasn't one-upping... at least it wasn't intended that way... pure
 ml> grep is, actually, the easiest since it doesn't involve any other
 ml> tools... it is the easiest in this case when one is just looking for
 ml> the line in question... i have some real doozies here that use cut,
 ml> uniq, sort and a couple of others feeding and being fed from grep...
 ml> long arsed command lines with numerous pipes... i'm glad i saved them
 ml> to a script ;)

Anyways.. I gave an easy way to do it. So what if it used more than one
tool? It was a one line command that utilizes two tools to get the job
done. If resources aren't a concern, what's easier - using two tools with
no optional parameters, or memorizing options for grep? Take your pick. As
I said, more than one way to skin a cat (or get the job done).

I'm not going to continue this conversation over something so trivial. We
both gave him a way to do it, and anything between you and me after that
was completely redundant and didn't help the cause any more.

Regards,
Nick

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