From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13632 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2017 04:20:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13606 invoked by uid 89); 23 Feb 2017 04:20:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=sage, 545, H*M:google X-HELO: mail-oi0-f50.google.com Received: from mail-oi0-f50.google.com (HELO mail-oi0-f50.google.com) (209.85.218.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:20:35 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 2so12167270oif.0 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:20:35 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:to:subject:references :user-agent; bh=oSYc/IGLv6O/bOhrKMK6oG1crryZ1duYq2tEySnGCso=; b=BTh5XCzYqj8P612gRyXiwXFsM4nXDnjbfCEMdBHQ3ecItJCNOQFM9PMsA4pgBtiUKB VSaLDEawv2G7s5if9uR49wgUBDqo2Iv6bmgEZpg9qmtW65YXdrGTczuLfIB5kwyIm2LH ikwSs/kA47NKv48MMr/mhcNfAvLFW9lgsLXC9mIpJkMKkg4bazNxQkgfV3rBNjmxNMir hp9DRcFKTxmKy9t7szuwgw4Fm5ChokpXwl6AgjdQbr2pKsunpjPEPSLmOYPn6rksL4E6 UhMhve0tFVugZGUl3BBi8geQAaaqgKxy6q4TUY5OtlO/qptEoXBPPJOpoz3CAoDB0Al/ gnJw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39nCCLoUJw5Cy8T/xpQqv312uJ5mmDIgWtt3OrXk/jHJUHRGAfXJ0MS2asFAYFAcGQ== X-Received: by 10.202.175.8 with SMTP id y8mr11891819oie.190.1487823633989; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from qrJ ([2605:6000:9fc0:56:811:343f:f904:d318]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r84sm1217150oie.24.2017.02.22.20.20.33 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:20:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <58ae6311.57a8ca0a.9eea8.6ebb@mx.google.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:20:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny X-Google-Original-From: Steven Penny To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.0.1 (github.com/svnpenn/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00287.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple