[arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

[Victor Lowther]

On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 22:10 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: 
> I have spent some time over the last month or so rewriting the Arch
> initscripts in idiomatic bash -- since they rely on bash-specific
> features, trying to keep them fairly POSIX is rather a waste of time and
> a net performance loss -- using bash-style conditionals is about 30%
> faster when nothing needs to be touched on the filesystem and about 200%
> easier to read, and you can use bash regexps in place of most trivial
> uses of sed, grep, and awk when mangling parameters or variables -- the
> fewer short-lived processes we fork the better.
> 
> You can browse changes I have made in the git repo @
> http://git.fnordovax.org/arch-initscripts/log/?h=bashification and you
> can checkout my changes to play around with from
> git://fnordovax.org/~victor/arch-initscripts 

OK, the bashification branch has been rebased and updated to fix issues
pointed out in the patch-by-patch feedback.  Thomas, if you want I will
repost the branch to the mailing list.

-- 
Victor Lowther
LPIC2 UCP RHCE