From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 8:28:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A98ED37BD61 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikko@m2.dynas.se) Received: (qmail 58555 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2000 15:28:10 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by karon.sto.dynas.se with SMTP; 25 Apr 2000 15:28:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 10506 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2000 15:28:14 -0000 Received: from m2.dynas.se (172.16.1.168) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 25 Apr 2000 15:28:14 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by m2.dynas.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA29727; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:28:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:28:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikko T Message-Id: <200004251528.RAA29727@m2.dynas.se> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commit MAKE_SHELL? Newsgroups: local.freebsd-hackers References: ; from green@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:51:16PM -0400 <20000425170951.A29390@happy.checkpoint.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message