[TUHS] ksh88 source code?

[Cyrille Lefevre]

Le 21/12/2021 à 17:42, John Cowan a écrit :
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:22 AM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com 
> <mailto:lm at mcvoy.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I get the historical interest, but in today's world, is there any
>     advantage to ksh over bash?  I get that lots of scripts are run
>     with /bin/sh and it is nice when that is fast, but aren't the cpus
>     fast enough these days that it sort of doesn't matter?
> 
> Ubuntu chose it as the default shell for sysvinit startup scripts in 
> 2006 (from which it spread to BSD) precisely because it was much faster 
> than bash.  It's also smaller: bash is a memory hog.

it seems bash4 have solved the performance penalty :

https://github.com/ksh-community/shbench/blob/master/bench/gsub.ksh

/me
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