From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: increasing speed of scripts
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:51:15 +0000
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JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> wrote:

> All other things being equal, what could be done to increase the
> execution speed of a complex series of shell scripts?  For example:
> 
> o  source an included script with `. foo' than let foo run in its
>    own subshell (#!/bin/sh)?
> 
> o  convert small include scripts to functions within the main script?
> 
> o  integrate the scripts into as few files as possible?

You could try this in comp.unix.shell ...