On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:09:46PM -0700, ghaverla wrote: [BIG snip] > With Respect To boot times, I would think moving to a specialised shell > that had no interactive capability (such as Gnu Readline) might be a > place to start. That the "shell" often had to invoke subshells to do > things, to me might be a reason to try Perl to boot a system. Just as > a trial, Perl is big. But once you get it up and running, it doesn't > need to invoke inferior processes for many tasks, and is capable of > starting binaries with calculated arguments.
This has (at least partly) been achieved by making the default shell "dash", rather than "bash". dash is significantly faster, and (as far as I can see) a drop-in replacement. This is not an attempt to claim that no futher improvements are wanted - but the difference dash made was significant. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140303085729.GA12793@hawking
