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From: Erik <sigra@××××.se>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:19:10
Message-Id: 44F807E3.4070406@home.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh? by Alexander Skwar
1 Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that
3 > bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if "dash" is used
4 > as /bin/sh instead of bash.
5 >
6 > Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo
7 > strictly POSIX compliant?
8
9 I tried "time configure" in gnuplot several times for each shell and
10 took the fastest time.
11
12 shell real user sys
13 bash 0m11.924s 0m6.848s 0m2.980s
14 dash 0m11.822s 0m6.888s 0m2.816s
15 static dash 0m11.977s 0m6.804s 0m3.064s
16
17 dash would be 0,9% faster, which is not statistically significant when
18 measuring like this.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh? Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>