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On Saturday 02 June 2007 19:56, Graham Bleach wrote:
> On 01/06/07, Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> > I've seen a few reference to using dash rather than bash as the
> > symlink for sh rather than bash. Dash is mostly POSIX compliant,
> > and very much smaller than bash so scripts without bashism
> > run quite a bit faster.
>
> Did you see any benchmarks to prove that dash is actually faster? Most
> shell scripts I write and maintain actually spend most of their time
> running executables, which means I'd be surprised if there was any
> appreciable improvement in performance.
Well, it's not very scientific, but my boot sequence seems an awful lot faster
now. I suppose it's just because the init sequence on a typical SysV init.d
system starts and awful lot of sub-shells. You are correct that for normal
operation I doubt you see much difference.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
My organ doesn't work properly and emits strange burning smells
-- seen on Usenet
