On 2/20/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan's OP was 'use dash to speed up booting' (over-compressed > over-simplification). I said you'd do better by parallelising the > service start ups. Nothing here that says it's at all worth while to do > either really. It's an intellectual exercise!
I never said that it was going to make a significant difference, but it that if you're going to spawn a bunch of shell scripts, it would make sense to use the interpreter that's 1/6 the size of the other. $ time { for (( i = 0; i < 20; i++ )); do /bin/bash -c ":"; done; } real 0m0.034s user 0m0.014s sys 0m0.020s $ time { for (( i = 0; i < 20; i++ )); do /bin/dash -c ":"; done; } real 0m0.015s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.011s -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page