From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:45:48 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20121025144548.1947a4f7@vardo.ethans.dre.am> In-Reply-To: References: <1450673.A5MVcxN6dG@coil> <4ogvg9xkdh.ln2@news.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] rc vs sh Topicbox-Message-UUID: c94a06ce-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:10:39 +0100 Charles Forsyth wrote: > Changing my default shell from bash to rc caused even terminal windows (let > alone 9term ones) to appear almost instantly on Ubuntu > (9term windows appear instantly on the click). i'm not sure how ubuntu manages this when other linux distros don't have the problem at all. os x does have the same problem... perhaps it's some optimization ubuntu doesn't enable and os x doesn't have; perhaps prelinking which itself is a workaround for the slowness caused by developing hugely complex software on dynamic linking. *sigh* > > We slowly standardise on slow standards, with degradation everywhere. no argument here! -- This is obviously some strange usage of the word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.