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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:23:44PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> 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 This version removes several outdated #defines that were once 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.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-09/msg00035.html

cgf

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