Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > > Did you thing about the fact that ksh93 is _really_ big and that people who > > like to use OpenSolaris in embedded environments probably cannot use ksh93 > > for > > this reason? > > Erm... the issue is the other way around - the use of builtin commands > enables ksh93 to work much faster and with less memory (since you can > avoid awk/sed/tr/etc. completely and even avoid temporary files for
You would need to prove this on an embedded system. I am not convinced at all. If you run huge shell scripts like "configure", I would expect the ksh to be faster but for the scripts that Solaris uses for startup, things look much different. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily