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Following the general software trend, it just keeps growing bigger and slower while still doing nothing new. But is this used anywhere, really? At least Bash us

Following the general software trend, it just keeps growing bigger and slower while still doing nothing new. But is this used anywhere, really? At least Bash uses its builtin.

p9idf 15y ago
Bash's implementation[1] isn't especially fast. It gets its speed by not having to fork, which is expensive on systems with dynamic linking. [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/plain/builtins/echo.def http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/plain/builtins/ech... http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/plain/support/recho.c http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/plain/support/rech... http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/plain/support/zecho.c http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/plain/support/zech...
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pyre 15y ago
> while still doing nothing new Really? So the GNU implementation is an exact match for the functionality of the SysV implementation? If so, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...