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From: | "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> |
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Subject: | RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7 |
Date: | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:23:44 -0500 |
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> From: Eric Blake > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:18 PM > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A new release of bash, 3.1-7, is available for experimental use. > > NOTICE: > ======= > This version removes several outdated #defines that were once > necessary in older versions of cygwin, but which made bash on > cygwin different and slower than bash on Linux. [snip, the > line-ending fiasco that shall forever plague computer science] How much slower? While I'm all for saving a cycle here and there (q.v. the 1% make improvement ;-)), I have a hard time believing that ignoring the occaisional "\r" is even a blip on bash's radar compared with fork()ing et al. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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