Linux dell-17 3.2.6-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 16 10:23:00 UTC 2012 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
address@hidden time find . -name '*.el' | parallel ls -la | wc -l
address@hidden time find . -name '*.el' | xargs ls -la | wc -l
as you can see, with parallel it's significantly slower and results are a bit different. I'm I doing something wrong?
address@hidden parallel --version
GNU parallel 20120124
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