On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Gary Whatmore <n...@spam.sp> wrote: > > I think optimizing this particular test is important for the publicity of D. > Once the scripting community acknowledges D, we could redesign it. We should > make all current test cases one liners, if possible. I'm dreaming of a Linux > system (Ubuntu) which uses dmd instead of bash to compile all init scripts. > The system would boot in just a few seconds. >
No it wouldn't. Booting doesn't take so long because you wait for bash/dash to interpret the init scripts but because you wait for what the init-scripts do (mount/fsck filesystems, start daemons, ...). Sure, there's an overhead from bash (or dash, that at least debian uses now and has fewer overhead), but it's not that significant.
