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I guess it's because the echo command included in the shell was slow.
by mistaken 10y ago
I guess it's because the echo command included in the shell was slow.
- pm215 10y agoThe cost of fork+exec of a separate binary will make even the most efficient possible external echo slower than the shell builtin, I suspect. (This is why echo is a builtin in the first place, though there's no requirement for it to be so.)