40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

Leo Bicknell bicknell at ufp.org
Wed Dec 3 07:35:35 PST 2003


In a message written on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:05:40PM -0200, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> And if you are using FreeBSD on desktop you should use bash or some 
> other ports-shell, instead of slowing down _the_ shell for shell 
> scripts. But that's IMHO, so I didn't pipe this in until now. But it's 
> the very same argument you are making, so I thought you deserved to hear it.

Except that bash at least is linked statically in ports, supports
none of this, and people don't seem to want to change it.

Gotta love consistency.

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