In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Hall writes: >If you're curious, I suggest you run some timings on ash with and without >getopts enabled using a few configure scripts from some of Cygwin's >packages, large and small. It was the slowness of configure scripts >that prompted the streamlining of Cygwin's ash. If you can provide >data that suggests that there isn't a performance penalty for these >scripts with getopts on, then a patch to turn it back on may be considered.
Did anyone perform an actual test showing that the getopts code was making a difference, or was it just a general desire to trim everything in sight? -s -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/