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Re: Question about ash and getopts
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Shankar Unni <shankarunni at netscape dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:52:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: Question about ash and getopts
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At 09:57 PM 12/31/2003, Shankar Unni you wrote:
>Larry Hall wrote:
>
>>Performance of configure scripts was abysmal when /bin/sh == /bin/bash.
>
>Umm, ash+getopts != bash. I think this is an apples-and-oranges comparison. Certainly ash (in any form) would be much faster than bash - no argument there, and I don't think anyone's advocating linking sh to bash again.
Nor was I. I was simply providing some history.
>I guess the big question now is: how would Peter "prove" to anyone's liking that ash+getopts ~= ash-getopts in performance (and nowhere near "bash")? Is there some acceptance criterion that anyone's willing to spell out? PTC is fine, but it's hard to evaluate a patch unless an objective (or even subjective) performance criterion is spelled out..
I provided my suggestion, which Peter followed. It's the ash maintainer
that has the final word on what, if anything, happens next and/or what
the criteria should be.
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