On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 01:58:14AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > The interesting fact is that, contrary to what I expected, running > "configure" was improved by only about 1% on average.
That may come from the fact that "configure" uses only the most basic shell constructs (it does not even use functions). Also, depending on the actual tests, 1/4-1/3 of "configure"'s run time is spent in the waitpid() system call, independent of the shell. > Thus, it's bash's start-up which is the slow part, in the terms of > actual speed, bash is not that far behind. It would be interesting to compare something more complex than "configure" scripts. "configure" scripts are huge but primitive. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]