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 `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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