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0 pointsedoloughlin13y ago0 comments

I didn't realise that parallel is a Perl script, which means it's going to lose when running very short-lived processes, as in my example.

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samvittighed13y ago

True. Unless you need some of the facilities in GNU Parallel that you do not find in xargs (such as --group which is default, running on remote machines, -L with -I, or --pipe for processing piped data).

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0 pointsedoloughlin13y ago0 comments

I didn't realise that parallel is a Perl script, which means it's going to lose when running very short-lived processes, as in my example.

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samvittighed13y ago

True. Unless you need some of the facilities in GNU Parallel that you do not find in xargs (such as --group which is default, running on remote machines, -L with -I, or --pipe for processing piped data).

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