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From:	seebs AT plethora DOT net (Peter Seebach)
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Subject:	Re: Question about ash and getopts
In-reply-to:	Your message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:34:56 CST." <200312292334.hBTNYuqd024130@guild.plethora.net>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:46:42 -0600
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In message <200312292334 DOT hBTNYuqd024130 AT guild DOT plethora DOT net>, Peter Seebach writ
es:
>Can we just kill this now?  Take out the "-j", leave the support for getopts
>in the shell, and all the shell scripters will be happy.  The configure
>scripts will run at exactly the same speed, and I will happily join in
>defending the decision to trim the job control and history features from the
>shell to make a minimalist shell designed for scripting, leaving people the
>option of using bash or pdksh if they want an interactive shell.

I may be forced to retract this.

Out of idle curiousity, I did timing comparisons between the stripped-down
shell and the "bloated" /bin/sh on NetBSD.

The bloated shell wins, by about 15%.  I don't know why, but I suspect it
has to do with configure using something which is a builtin in the bigger
shell, and an external command in the smaller one.

I find this ironic.

-s

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