Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >Right... but the idea of pre-compiling the shell scripts is to reduce > >the total CPU time consumed by the shell interpreter. Most scripting > >languages (like Python) already do this by default. > > Accounting might be able to tell you how much time is used for shell > scripts; but most time used by the startup scripts are "sleep X" or > waiting for some other timeout.
Right and on most platforms boot time is more bound to I/O than CPU but there are cases like embedded x86 machines or slower SPARCs where the total CPU time used is still the bottleneck (if we ever get an OpenSolaris/ARM port then this will be a major problem). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
