Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sat Jun 11 01:48:00 GMT 2005


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.

cgf

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