From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58ae6311.57a8ca0a.9eea8.6ebb@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.327710ac-2397-1929-0675-978d3fc356f3@redhat.com>
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:50:34, "Eric Blake (cygwin)" wrote:
> For now, there are no immediate plans of replacing /bin/sh
> with dash, but the possibility remains for the future.
I am a fan of this. Debian does this already, and it would dramatically speed up
shell scripts:
$ cat alfa.sh
x=400000
until [ "$((x -= 1))" = 0 ]
do :
done
$ time bash alfa.sh
real 0m5.735s
$ time dash alfa.sh
real 0m1.112s
Dash can handle large scripts; I am already using it with one (545 SLOC):
http://github.com/svnpenn/sage/blob/master/sage
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-23 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-17 14:01 Eric Blake (cygwin)
2017-02-23 4:20 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2017-02-23 17:50 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-23 19:46 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-23 19:59 ` Brian Inglis
2017-02-23 20:41 ` Eric Blake
2017-02-24 7:19 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-02-23 23:44 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-24 14:32 ` Eric Blake
2017-02-24 19:19 ` Brian Inglis
2017-02-23 22:05 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-23 23:01 ` Tony Kelman
2017-02-23 23:04 ` Eliot Moss
2017-02-23 23:12 ` Kenneth Wolcott
2017-02-23 23:30 ` Vince Rice
2017-02-23 23:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-24 3:16 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2017-02-24 3:18 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2017-02-24 4:57 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-24 14:43 ` Eric Blake
2017-02-24 15:05 ` Lee Dilkie
2017-02-25 16:55 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-01 23:57 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2017-02-23 23:33 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-25 16:46 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-25 17:09 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-27 10:20 ` Csaba Raduly
2017-02-27 12:48 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-27 23:13 ` Duncan Roe
2017-02-28 0:51 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-28 20:52 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-28 21:43 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-01 14:42 ` cyg Simple
2017-03-02 0:22 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-02 3:46 ` Vince Rice
2017-03-02 5:27 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-02 5:31 ` Vince Rice
2017-03-02 12:36 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-02 13:37 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-03-02 14:29 ` Eric Blake
2017-03-02 16:16 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-03-02 17:28 ` Brian Inglis
2017-03-02 18:45 ` Eric Blake
2017-03-02 23:23 ` Brian Inglis
2017-03-02 18:28 ` Achim Gratz
2017-03-02 14:31 ` Brian Inglis
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