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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:14:54
Message-Id: 10842683.C9kLLVcbOg@work.message-center.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh? by Erik
1 Erik <sigra@××××.se>:
2
3 > Alexander Skwar wrote:
4 >> The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that
5 >> bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if "dash" is used
6 >> as /bin/sh instead of bash.
7 >>
8 >> Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo
9 >> strictly POSIX compliant?
10 >
11 > I tried "time configure" in gnuplot several times for each shell and
12 > took the fastest time.
13 >
14 > shell real user sys
15 > bash 0m11.924s 0m6.848s 0m2.980s
16 > dash 0m11.822s 0m6.888s 0m2.816s
17 > static dash 0m11.977s 0m6.804s 0m3.064s
18 >
19 > dash would be 0,9% faster, which is not statistically significant when
20 > measuring like this.
21
22 Interesting. Thanks. Them Ubuntu guys said, that the configure run
23 for OOo is supposed to be much faster - 2 minutes, or so.
24
25 Thanks!
26
27 Alexander Skwar
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