[alttab]

Well, it also probably compiles a full C++ program before running it. So performance would be terrible. I think this was made as tongue-in-cheek with all of the ruby awk stuff we've seen lately.

What I take out of this is "the unix command line tools are there, learn them and use them."

[akaus]

Interactive performance? SCC compilation is about 1 sec on my old laptop with warm cache. Good enough for command line tool. Or do you mean run time performance? Run time probably faster than anything else.

[anon_d]

[...] 1 sec [...]. Good enough for command line tool [...]

lol

[lvv]

For interactive use - yes, it's good enough. For use in scripts - it's probably too slow. But you can use compiled binary. It is saved under /tmp/<user-name>-scc