On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Kyle Sallee wrote:
Rehacking libtool to support a faster shell is a good idea. But that should be done last after all the libtool shell syntax is optimized and invocation of external programs is minimized.
A better idea is to perform some optimization of the world's least optimized shell ("bash"). An excellent feature of bash is that it offers so much room for performance improvement.
A little time in the profiler will quickly discover where bash is being slow and then someone can re-write that bit of the code to be more efficient. There has not been a release of bash for two years now. Hopefully someone is working on more than collecting bug-fix patches (39 official patches already!).
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