Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:46:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Prashant Ramachandra wrote:

> | On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> | 
> | > The version of bash I had did not have cp and so on as internal
> | > commands,
> | > thus being everything but echo, # and cd very slow (half a
> | > second!).
> | 
> | Half a second for a cd??  On what system was that?  What CPU and OS?
> | 
> | 
> | On my venerable P166 running Windows 95, "cd" is so instanteneous,
> | I
> | cannot even easily measure the time it takes.
> 
> I've noticed this happening on NT systems. I have no clue as to why that
> happens. It happens rarely. Btw, this is on a PIII 800MHz with 256MB RAM and
> _lots_ of space ;-).
> 
> Command like cd that don't need to run any exes work well. But the rest like
> ls, pwd are all slow. No clue why that's so.

Note that the OP was talking specifically about `cd'.