Re: startup time is quadratic in argc

2018-02-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/3/18 8:47 PM, Ambrose Feinstein wrote: > I was surprised to discover this: > > $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 1000) > 0.01s wall 0.00s user 0.00s system > $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 1) > 0.40s wall 0.39s user 0.00s system > $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 2) > 1.32s wall 1.31s user 0.01s system > $

startup time is quadratic in argc

2018-02-03 Thread Ambrose Feinstein
I was surprised to discover this: $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 1000) 0.01s wall 0.00s user 0.00s system $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 1) 0.40s wall 0.39s user 0.00s system $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 2) 1.32s wall 1.31s user 0.01s system $ time ./bash -c : $(seq 4) 4.57s wall 4.54s user 0.02s syst