Hi, Bash starts slowly on my 600 Mhz computer (.62 seconds). I wanted to understand why, and here is what I found:
$ time eval `dircolors` real 0m0.325s user 0m0.316s sys 0m0.004s I wanted to know what is so slow in the previous command, so here is another test: $ time (dircolors > dircolors_output && sh ./dircolors_output) real 0m0.007s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.004s I don't know much about bash internals, but there is probably room for a huge performance improvement in speeding up the eval builtin. What do you think about it? Would it be a difficult task? Thanks, Nicolas
