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Old 04-14-2008   #4 (permalink)
Pete Zerger
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Re: PowerShell performance

Hello Keith Hill [MVP],

Point taken, but that being said, how does it stack up against traditional
runtime scripting languages in terms of performance and overhead?

Regards,

Pete Zerger, MCSE(Messaging) | MCTS(SQL 2005) | MCTS(Opsmgr) | MVP - Opsmgr
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> "Pete Zerger" <pete.zerger@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello Marco Shaw [MVP],
>>
>> You've touched on a topic I've been eager to discuss for some time,
>> so let me pose a question if I may.
>>
>> Presumably there are calls to the .NET framework when an instance of
>> Powershell is instantiated, correct? Would not this process of
>> starting Powershell when launching as a script as a scheduled task or
>> calling from a bat file before making WMI, ASDI or other calls result
>> in a longer time to completion?
>>
> It's not just making some calls - PowerShell is entirely based on the
> .NET Framework. It's baked into the core.
>
> --
> Keith