On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:28:37PM +0200, Mikko T wrote:
> >Anatoly Vorobey:
>
> >On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:51:16PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
>
> >> I certainly don't mind adding more shells to the ${MAKE_SHELL} logic, but
> >> so far have only done ksh because using pdksh as the ${MAKE_SHELL} does,
> >> for me, result in about 10% faster make world time, and speeds port
> >> building enormously
>
> >Do you have any guesses about what causes this speed increase? What does
> >our shell suck at, in terms of speed? Maybe we could try and speed it up.
>
> I compared some complex shell scripts on different platforms, albeit
> quite a while back (FreeBSD 2.something, I think). FreeBSD didn't do
> too well, speedwise, mainly due to not having a built-in "test", thus
> having to execute "/bin/test" (or "/bin/[") a lot.
Well, *should* we have a built-in "test"? I gather the original ash didn't
have it due to the KIS principle. But if it speeds things up considerably,
it's not much of a bloat, is it? I'd volunteer to write it.
--
Anatoly Vorobey,
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