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catwell on May 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls

$ strace lua5.3 -e 'print("hello")' 2>&1 > /dev/null | wc -l

67

kazinator on May 13, 2016 [–]

  $ strace txr -e '(put-line "hello")' 2>&1 > /dev/null | wc -l
  70

Very similar.

Obviously there are those who care about reasonable startup times and, ... others. :)

By the way, TXR supports setuid operation, and so it makes a few extra syscalls to check its security situation (am I running setuid? setgid?)

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