Development version of bash is very slow in running autoconf-generated scripts

2013-05-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Compared with Bash 4.2, the development version of bash is very slow in running autoconf-generated configure scripts (or, to be more precise, that's where I noticed the slowness; it might very well be more generalized, but I haven't checked for that). Some numbers: $ /bin/bash -c 'echo

Re: Development version of bash is very slow in running autoconf-generated scripts

2013-05-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 05/06/2013 12:33 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Four times slower, yikes. Any idea where these numbers might be coming from? Try building without debugging options (make DEUBG= MALLOC_DEBUG=) Thanks! This solved the issue (after