On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
Finally, a small but probably noticable improvement would come
from dropping support for ancient platforms, such as Ultrix. A much
bigger win would be to use Bash or Zsh if they are installed, as that
allows using modern shell tricks (such as [[ "$a" =~ [0-9]+ ]] and
"${a//a/b}") that do not require forking new processes.
The configure script already tries to deduce the best shell
(CONFIG_SHELL) to use to run the rest of the configure script. It is
pretty common that the shell selected is bash (if it was not already
bash).
It has been noticed that bash is rarely the fastest shell out of the
options available. For example 'dash' is often used since it tends to
execute more quickly.
If projects established a baseline for the antiquity of the targets
they support, then the number of tests can be reduced and configure
will run faster.
Bob
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