On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther
<victor.lowther@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome.
why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper
into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts)
Because arrays and associative arrays are very useful, using native
bash costructs instead of posix gives you a decent speed boost, and
the main source of slowdowns in the boot sequence is I/O based --
mounting filesystems and launching programs. Serious boot speed
optimization is a matter of optimizing I/O.
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Caleb Cushing
http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
