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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:23:44 -0500
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7
> From: Eric Blake
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:18 PM
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7
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> A new release of bash, 3.1-7, is available for experimental use.
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> NOTICE:
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> This version removes several outdated #defines that were once
> necessary in older versions of cygwin, but which made bash on
> cygwin different and slower than bash on Linux. [snip, the
> line-ending fiasco that shall forever plague computer science]
How much slower? While I'm all for saving a cycle here and there (q.v. the
1% make improvement ;-)), I have a hard time believing that ignoring the
occaisional "\r" is even a blip on bash's radar compared with fork()ing et
al.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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