performance of shell read loops

2016-03-06 Thread David Holland
Today it came up (in the context of something Christos did) that shell read loops are horribly, horribly slow. I'd always assumed that this was because shell read loops tend to fork at least once for every iteration (so O(n) times) and a more pipeline-oriented approach tends to fork O(1) times. Whi

Re: Google summer code 2016 project ideas

2016-03-06 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Charles Cui wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >One question about porting posix test suite onto netbsd. >Right now the suite can execute on Linux and mac OS(I have not tested >others), >there should be some fixes in Makefile to let it run on netbsd because it >cannot be compiled now. >My questio

Re: Google summer code 2016 project ideas

2016-03-06 Thread Charles Cui
One question about porting posix test suite onto netbsd. Right now the suite can execute on Linux and mac OS(I have not tested others), there should be some fixes in Makefile to let it run on netbsd because it cannot be compiled now. My question is the output of this suite on Linux (and macOS) repo