On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:28:49PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > The memory space is generally not significant either because only one > copy of the code is in memory at any time. The difference would be data > space. > /me admits to hoping someone would try this - there was an article on lwn recently, http://lwn.net/Articles/220255/ - apparently in Tanenbaum's benchmarks the original sh was fastest, and in the discussion somebody noted that ubuntu had switched to dash to speed up their bootscripts.
Of course, our own bootscripts are lean and mean - anything derived from debian seems to do its best to add layers of indirection. ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
