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Date:      Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:15:12 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, FreeBSD Architecture <arch@FreeBSD.org>, obrien@nuxi.com, nate@yogotech.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as Makefile.inc0 src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200103040015.f240FCV03680@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>  of "Sun, 04 Mar 2001 06:15:07 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103040607510.2651-100000@besplex.bde.org> 

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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 
> > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:52:42AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> > > > I'd like to note this was added by green so he could use ksh with 
> > > > make.
> > > 
> > > I think the better way to accomplish that is to replace /bin/sh with
> > > ksh93 :-)   But I'm not volunteering to update /etc/rc* at this time,
> > > no matter how trivial the required modifications appear to be.
> > 
> > The change was made so that I could gain a good 10% speed increase on make 
> > world by using a better shell.  Using ksh93 as an option would be good, 
> 
> This seems unlikely.  You are doing something wrong if shells take more
> than 1% of the time for makeworld.

You think so?  Most of the overhead goes into the compiling phase, but a lot 
of it goes into the initial start-up of tons of shells and make(1)s.  I'll 
test it again some time, but I know it certainly made it faster.

-- 
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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