Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <200312300032.hBU0WKqd004388@guild.plethora.net> From: seebs AT plethora DOT net (Peter Seebach) Reply-To: seebs AT plethora DOT net (Peter Seebach) To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Question about ash and getopts In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:18:23 EST." <6.0.1.1.0.20031229191157.03bc6bd0@127.0.0.1> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:32:20 -0600 X-IsSubscribed: yes In message <6 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20031229191157 DOT 03bc6bd0 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1>, Larry Hall writes: >Indeed. That it would be. Of course, like I said, lot's of things have >changed so the results today don't necessarily conflict with the findings >of yesteryear. It's possible. My guess is that the big improvement was nuking the history and job control stuff, both of which probably imply some overhead. >Would you be willing to take this a step further and provide some >configuration timings for some of the existing Cygwin packages? Of >particular interest would be the larger packages, like binutils, gcc, and >gdb. If these have favorable results, I think it could spark some >interest. That'll take a while. My first attempt to reinstall cygwin failed in a dramatic way, so I won't have it installed for some time. If I get time (and I may actually have to go back to my "real" work shortly), I will try to run a test using the bells-and-whistles /bin/sh used on NetBSD. I haven't tracked it down, but my guess is that some frequently used configure commands may be builtins in that shell, which would EASILY swamp any marginal benefit from having the shell be a bit smaller. -s -- 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/