<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM, B Watson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yalhcru@gmail.com">yalhcru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 11/2/10, Max Miorim <<a href="mailto:miorimmax@gmail.com">miorimmax@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Unless we're talking about using either /bin/bash or /bin/sh, the<br>
> problem that I see with this is that it would open the precedence to<br>
> accept submissions of scripts using other shells like csh and zsh,<br>
> that could be a problem for the people that review the scripts, as<br>
> they'd have to learn the particularities of other shells - it could<br>
> slow down the process of review->approval considerably.<br>
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</div>Yah, I hadn't thought about csh. Definitely agree the rule should be<br>
/bin/bash, or /bin/sh for scripts that were tested with ash.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> the same thing that took 16.702 seconds using bash as /bin/sh took<br>
> 6.803 with ash and pretty much the same happens to every script that<br>
> we tested.<br>
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</div>Interesting. Never even occurred to me to test performance, I expect<br>
interpreters to be slow, and at least subconsciously I was aware that bash<br>
is bloated... but wouldn't have guessed ash would be *that* much faster.<br>
<br>
Hm. I just now thought I'd try a couple of things in ash, as an<br>
interactive shell, on slack64 13.1, and the damn thing segfaulted halfway<br>
through typing the first command. /me runs off to do some more testing...<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Certainly Bash is slower. It supports a wider array of scripting options, after all.<br><br>Remember the golden rule of software: You can have it fast, you can have it cheap, you can have it good. Pick two.<br>
<br>(Note: Not saying ash is not good. It just doesn't compare feature-wise to Bash, which is also free...)<br><br>--JK<br>