Re: 'cat' and 'rm' as builtins ?

On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Tim Rühsen wrote: ... Since cat and rm implementations are pretty small in code size, I wonder if you (the maintainers) would accept patches to make these commands builtin commands. Have you looked at the loadable builtins in the examples directory? -- Chris F.A. Johnso

'cat' and 'rm' as builtins ?

Hi, currently, some GNU people are developing ideas and code to speed up the GNU toolchain (autotools, make). A simple ./configure for wget calls 'cat' ~2000 times, same with 'rm'. This sums up to a roughly 5-10% of the overall time used in ./configure. Since cat and rm implementations are pret

Re: 'cat' and 'rm' as builtins ?

On Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2016 17:33:15 CET Tim Rühsen wrote: > Hi, > > currently, some GNU people are developing ideas and code to speed up the GNU > toolchain (autotools, make). > > A simple ./configure for wget calls 'cat' ~2000 times, same with 'rm'. > This sums up to a roughly 5-10% of the ove