From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 7:11:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (happy.checkpoint.com [199.203.156.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB6D37BD8B; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA29452; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:09:52 GMT (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:09:52 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commit MAKE_SHELL? Message-ID: <20000425170951.A29390@happy.checkpoint.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from green@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:51:16PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. (this is not meant to counter your proposal). -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message