Matthew Rosewarne on 9 Sep 2008 16:31:17 -0700 |
On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Stephen Gran wrote: > Ubuntu has, as far as I know, generally made the decision that smaller, > lighter implementations that are otherwise equivalent [0] are better. I'm > not sure that this is always the 'right' thing, but there is a certain > sense to it. Well, when it comes to dash/bash, it really does make a significant difference in speed, as /bin/sh is called extremely often. I'm not so sure there's a performance case to be made for mawk, but I believe it's the version Debian uses by default too. Attachment:
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