[arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 28.06.2010 05:10, schrieb Victor Lowther:
> 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 

Okay, those are LOTS of patches. I agree with most of them, but not all.
However, reviewing and commenting them like this is a bit tedious - can
you use git send-email to send them to this list as a patch series, so I
can comment properly?

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