> Nice info thanks. > I tested stuff like this previously, and found it highly shell dependent: > http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/shell_script_mistakes.html#performance
Here are my tests: http://www.mail-archive.com/autoc...@gnu.org/msg17892.html > In summary I noticed that dash forked twice as fast as bash, That's probably just less malloced memory. See at the end of the above message. Paolo