dash

[Thilo Six]

Rocco Stanzione wrote the following on 14.09.2006 23:18:

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> So, my opinion is that dash-as-sh is not worth the real and potential problems 
> it causes.  I've only ever thought bash was slow-ish as a login shell, and 
> that was due to bash-completion and my somewhat heavy .bashrc, and these 
> aren't issues when running shell scripts.  Picking a few scripts basically at 
> random and timing them with bash vs. dash, the biggest difference I've seen 
> is 2ms, and those differences disappear altogether if I time them from within 
> dash.

That´s quite incorrect from my experience.
I have set /bin/sh to dash in dapper (which is not official supported i
know)
...and it makes a _real_ difference.

- when it comes to boot sequence
- and in running system my cpu load went doen from normal ~3-4% with
  bash to <1% with dash.
  updatedb runs faster, my backup script is faster.

So personally _I_ see a lot reasons why it is worth.

bash is good for interactive shells, apart from that i prefer dash

> Thanks,
> 
> Rocco

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