>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.

       $.02,
       /Mikko


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