dash

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Fri Sep 15 20:12:20 BST 2006


On vr, 2006-09-15 at 11:57 -0700, Constantine Evans wrote:
> It should also be noted that even ignoring the speed increases in
> shell scripts, using dash for /bin/sh should also cause significant
> speed increases in python scripts making heavy use of os.system(), and
> ruby scripts using system(), and so on, unless I am mistaken about
> their use of /bin/sh.

*anything* that (ab)uses /bin/sh for running commands will benefit.
-- 
Dennis K.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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