[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments1 [PSARC/2008/344 FastTrack timeout 06/03/2008]

[Joerg Schilling]

Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> > Did you thing about the fact that ksh93 is _really_ big and that people who
> > like to use OpenSolaris in embedded environments probably cannot use ksh93 for
> > this reason? 
>
> Erm... the issue is the other way around - the use of builtin commands
> enables ksh93 to work much faster and with less memory (since you can
> avoid awk/sed/tr/etc. completely and even avoid temporary files for

You would need to prove this on an embedded system. I am not convinced at all.

If you run huge shell scripts like "configure", I would expect the ksh to be
faster but for the scripts that Solaris uses for startup, things look much 
different.

Jörg

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