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Subject: RE: Simple bash script is slow to execute - appears to be time spent   starting commands like ls
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:06:15 -0400
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Bryan Thrall wrote:

You're right about true being built-in, but we still don't know from
your examples whether the problem is from forking or from IO. Try
replacing 'true' in Jeremy's loop with '/bin/true'. Comparison between
the two should give us an idea of the forking cost, without IO getting
in the way.

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I had to reduce to 100 iterations.

On Linux:

real    0m0.448s
user    0m0.244s
sys     0m0.220s

On Cygwin:

real    0m48.411s
user    0m15.005s
sys     0m18.520s

So basically a factor of 100... again points to forking or Vista process
start slowness.



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