On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 18:10 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
> On 2016-01-03 17:03:02, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > […] For
> > instance, /bin -> /usr/bin is needed because otherwise #!/bin/sh would
> > stop working, […]
> 
> This brings to mind—I wonder if the performance impact of having /bin/sh
> be read through two indirections (/bin/sh → /usr/bin/sh →
> /usr/bin/{dash, bash, etc.}) is non-zero and if it could be reliably
> measured.

Trivial compared to the cost of running a single line of a shell
script.

Ben.

> This is not an argument against UsrMerge, I'm very much for it; I'm just
> curious.
> 
> iustin
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Ben Hutchings
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