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From:	Steven Penny <svnpenn AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:50:34, "Eric Blake (cygwin)" wrote:
> For now, there are no immediate plans of replacing /bin/sh
> with dash, but the possibility remains for the future.

I am a fan of this. Debian does this already, and it would dramatically speed up
shell scripts:

    $ cat alfa.sh
    x=400000
    until [ "$((x -= 1))" = 0 ]
    do :
    done

    $ time bash alfa.sh
    real    0m5.735s

    $ time dash alfa.sh
    real    0m1.112s

Dash can handle large scripts; I am already using it with one (545 SLOC):

http://github.com/svnpenn/sage/blob/master/sage


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