Garrett D'Amore wrote:
If this can remove any external subprocesses from being called, it can have a significant performance impact. (At one point, someone figured that removing a :sh= from one of the top-level Makefiles saved several hours from build times. This was a long time (5+ years?) ago.
Yeah, that was me. However it had nothing to do with the flavour of shell that was in use, it was just that we were calling 'sh -c echo #' several bazillion times per build.
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