Re: [SPOILER] Solution to Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #22

On Aug 30, 2004, at 18:26, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> The original was run on Windows 2000 w/ perl 5.6.1. Similar 
> processors, but run times are very different. I suspect the difference 
> must be due to file caching. From observing the run on linux, it 
> /seems/ like the entire word file is remaining in the file cache, 
> where on Windows it reread the file each time. That's my best guess at 
> what's going on, but it is just a guess.

Interesting, what is that file cache? Does it have to do with the 
operating system? Is its usage observable somehow?

-- fxn