Thorsten Dahlheimer wrote: > Are you sure you didn't actually measure bash's performance twice?
I've just rerun the tests. This time I made sure in Task Manager that the right shell is used. Regards Krzysztof Duleba $ cat bench.sh #!/bin/bash benchmark() { package="$1" shell="$2" unset CONFIG_SHELL if [ $shell != "bash" ]; then export CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/$shell"; fi echo "Configuring $package with $shell" time "$package"/configure --prefix=/usr >"$package/confout.$shell" echo } benchmark "netcat-0.7.1" "sh" benchmark "netcat-0.7.1" "bash" benchmark "mc-4.6.1-pre4" "sh" benchmark "mc-4.6.1-pre4" "bash" benchmark "octave-2.1.57" "sh" benchmark "octave-2.1.57" "bash" $ ./bench.sh Configuring netcat-0.7.1 with sh real 0m48.519s user 1m24.139s sys 0m23.826s Configuring netcat-0.7.1 with bash real 0m52.584s user 1m29.344s sys 0m29.698s Configuring mc-4.6.1-pre4 with sh real 1m55.170s user 3m25.148s sys 0m58.383s Configuring mc-4.6.1-pre4 with bash real 2m2.551s user 3m29.032s sys 1m7.058s Configuring octave-2.1.57 with sh real 2m22.899s user 3m59.346s sys 1m8.478s Configuring octave-2.1.57 with bash real 2m30.363s user 4m9.959s sys 1m23.563s -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/