Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:09:46PM -0700, ghaverla wrote:
[BIG snip]
> With Respect To boot times, I would think moving to a specialised shell
> that had no interactive capability (such as Gnu Readline) might be a
> place to start. That the "shell" often had to invoke subshells to do
> things, to me might be a reason to try Perl to boot a system. Just as
> a trial, Perl is big. But once you get it up and running, it doesn't
> need to invoke inferior processes for many tasks, and is capable of
> starting binaries with calculated arguments.
This has (at least partly) been achieved by making the default shell
"dash", rather than "bash". dash is significantly faster, and (as far
as I can see) a drop-in replacement.
This is not an attempt to claim that no futher improvements are wanted
- but the difference dash made was significant.
--
Karl E. Jorgensen
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