On 2/20/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dan's OP was 'use dash to speed up booting' (over-compressed
> over-simplification). I said you'd do better by parallelising the
> service start ups. Nothing here that says it's at all worth while to do
> either really. It's an intellectual exercise!
I never said that it was going to make a significant difference, but
it that if you're going to spawn a bunch of shell scripts, it would
make sense to use the interpreter that's 1/6 the size of the other.
$ time { for (( i = 0; i < 20; i++ )); do /bin/bash -c ":"; done; }
real 0m0.034s
user 0m0.014s
sys 0m0.020s
$ time { for (( i = 0; i < 20; i++ )); do /bin/dash -c ":"; done; }
real 0m0.015s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.011s
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Dan
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