On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:23:44PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Eric Blake >> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:18 PM >> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7 >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> A new release of bash, 3.1-7, is available for experimental use. >> >> NOTICE: >> ======= >> This version removes several outdated #defines that were once >> necessary in older versions of cygwin, but which made bash on >> cygwin different and slower than bash on Linux. [snip, the >> line-ending fiasco that shall forever plague computer science] > >How much slower? While I'm all for saving a cycle here and there (q.v. the >1% make improvement ;-)), I have a hard time believing that ignoring the >occaisional "\r" is even a blip on bash's radar compared with fork()ing et >al.
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