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

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