On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 14:13 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> A bit off topic, but I found https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
> as a reason that they use dash.  I think their problem is not so much 
> bash as too many complicated scripts.  They don't document the saving. 
> On an LFS system, the time in the boot scripts generally is about 6 
> seconds for me.  If I didn't do udev_settle and udev_retry it would be 
> 2-3 seconds.
> 
> Because they have way too much bloat in the boot scripts, they break 
> other things.

Yes... my feeling on that one is that if the overhead of shell startup
is a significant contributor to boot time, you're probably doing
something spectacularly inefficient, and switching to a lighter shell is
only hiding the problem...

Simon.

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