28 Jun
2010
28 Jun
'10
4:35 p.m.
On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com> wrote:
Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome.
why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts)
Because arrays and associative arrays are very useful, using native bash costructs instead of posix gives you a decent speed boost, and the main source of slowdowns in the boot sequence is I/O based -- mounting filesystems and launching programs. Serious boot speed optimization is a matter of optimizing I/O.
-- Caleb Cushing