> It's not, and I wasn't saying it was, I suppose I should have made
> that point more obvious, starting sub-shells under any OS I've come
> accross so far is slow, would love to see Linux's run alot faster
> than Solaris's though, would give me another thing to tell
> management about how Linux is better... :)
Starting bash under SunOS 4.1.3 vs Linux on the same box (hypersparc
90, UP) - linux is much faster. I've not looked at why.
> That is defintely something else to look at, also I've seen alot of
> shell scripts that uses '#!/bin/sh', but are really for bash and
> won't run under the 'sh' found on other systems, would be better if
> they did '#!/bin/bash', or that 'sh' not just be 'bash', but that's
> all something for the distributors really...
`ash' is available is much faster in many cases.
> Hmmm, configure scripts are just about an everyday thing to me, as
> the admin I get to run around upgrading all the software, after
> testing it and making sure it doesn't break anything else and other
> things.
Oh - they are for me to, but in total, I doubt I would spend more
that 0.5% of my CPU time running them compared to a squid or
somesuch.
For me, a 10% speed increase in network IO or disk IO compared to a
300% increase in running ./configure is more worth while.
-cw
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