From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ksh88 source code?
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:47:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbc12c7d-3d72-b18a-7ade-6c54de308664@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_RAYxkeTpxtHGyNCiMYauzEv_mJceoTswNirWGL2Y48Lw@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/21/21 11:42 AM, John Cowan wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:22 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com
> <mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
>
> I get the historical interest, but in today's world, is there any
> advantage to ksh over bash? I get that lots of scripts are run
> with /bin/sh and it is nice when that is fast, but aren't the cpus
> fast enough these days that it sort of doesn't matter?
>
>
> Ubuntu chose it as the default shell for sysvinit startup scripts in 2006
> (from which it spread to BSD) precisely because it was much faster than
> bash. It's also smaller: bash is a memory hog.
You're talking about dash, I think.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-21 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-22 22:43 Warren Toomey
2020-12-22 23:01 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-23 1:29 ` John P. Linderman
2020-12-23 22:57 ` Warren Toomey
2020-12-23 3:30 ` Rico Pajarola
2020-12-23 9:03 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-12-23 9:14 ` Rico Pajarola
2020-12-23 5:46 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2020-12-23 7:19 ` Efton Collins
2021-12-21 13:55 ` Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2021-12-21 16:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-21 16:27 ` Warner Losh
2021-12-21 17:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-21 17:31 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2021-12-21 19:09 ` Richard Salz
2021-12-22 6:23 ` jason-tuhs
2021-12-24 22:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-24 23:15 ` Richard Salz
2021-12-24 23:34 ` Michael Huff
2021-12-21 16:42 ` John Cowan
2021-12-21 16:47 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2021-12-21 17:09 ` John Cowan
2021-12-22 11:11 ` Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2021-12-21 22:15 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-12-22 7:44 ` arnold
2021-12-22 14:35 ` Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2021-12-22 14:36 ` Chet Ramey
2021-12-23 13:39 ` [TUHS] Bourne shell source code (was Re: ksh88 source code?) Cyrille Lefevre via TUHS
2020-12-23 6:56 ` [TUHS] ksh88 source code? arnold
2021-12-22 14:40 Norman Wilson
2021-12-23 17:23 ` John Cowan
2021-12-23 20:08 ` silas poulson
2021-12-23 19:10 Norman Wilson
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