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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Krzysztof Duleba" Subject: Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come? Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:18:48 +0200 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <20050610150729 DOT GA13181 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050610231343 DOT 6A12713C0A7 AT cgf DOT cx> <20050611003817 DOT GB1106 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:13:31PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >Configuring wxWindows from cvs, on a 3.4GHz P4: > > > >Sh = Ash: > >real 3m55.351s > >user 5m8.610s > >sys 1m53.240s > > > >Sh = Bash: > >real 3m41.850s > >user 5m6.220s > >sys 1m53.426s > > > >Looks like the time has come. > > Wow. I never expected that bash would actually be faster. > > I would appreciate getting a few more benchmarks for other packages. > If this holds out then moving to bash is a no-brainer. Similar results here. Configuring on Athlon 2200 gives 1. octave 2.1.57: sh = ash real 2m48.347s user 4m13.299s sys 1m25.203s sh = bash real 2m38.129s user 4m11.777s sys 1m23.915s 2. netcat 0.7.1 sh = ash real 0m56.847s user 1m29.808s sys 0m30.186s sh = bash real 0m57.015s user 1m28.878s sys 0m29.338s 3. mc 4.6.1-pre4 sh = ash real 2m13.248s user 3m31.685s sys 1m9.772s sh = bash real 2m10.112s user 3m30.198s sys 1m10.563s Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- 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/