Re: M4sh tests 77 and 78 vs /bin/sh -> dash

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> I get similar results here, bash adds about a second. With large scripts
> the improvement is lost in the noise, but it's still a free lunch.

When using a parallel compile on a modern multi-core system, I find 
that from-scratch build timing (for GraphicsMagick, which is mostly C 
code) is dominated in this order:

 1) configure
 2) linker
 3) compilation

Linker time depends on the linker used.

The associated test suite takes longer to run than building the 
software.

It is amazing how compiling is not necessary the slowest part any 
more.

Given C++ code with lots of templates, compiling is still surely the 
bottleneck.

Bob
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