Joshua Jensen <jjensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Anyway, my preference is to allow scripts to run in-process within > Git, because it is far, far faster on Windows. I imagine it is > faster than forking processes on non-Windows machines, too, but I > have no statistics to back that up. > > Python, Perl, or Ruby can be embedded, too, but Lua probably embeds > the easiest and smallest out of those other 3 languages. > > And shell scripts tend to be the slowest on Windows due to the > excessive numbers of process invocations needed to get anything > reasonable done. I don't think there's *any* dimension along which lua is not clearly better than shell for this sort of thing, so no argument there. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html