From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 4 15:21:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FCB37B719; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (zw3v0y@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f240FCV03680; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:15:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200103040015.f240FCV03680@green.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bruce Evans Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Will Andrews , FreeBSD Architecture , 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 In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Evans of "Sun, 04 Mar 2001 06:15:07 +1100." From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:15:12 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > "Jacques A. Vidrine" 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