Re: [PATCH] libtool: minimise forks per invocation on cygwin and mingw.

[Charles Wilson]

On 12/8/2011 5:21 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> The recently pushed series of patches included the controversial
> introduction of an additional 3 forks per invocation, which might
> add a minute or two of wall-clock time to giant builds on windows.
> By assuming that windows will run shell scripts on some shell with
> all the modern optional features that libtool wants, this patch
> eliminates even those 3 new forks.
> 
> Okay to push?

Has anybody done a comparison between:

cygwin + libtool + dash/posh (e.g. small, fast shell -- without XSI)

cygwin + libtool + bash (e.g. big bloated slow shell -- with XSI)

to see which is better?

--
Chuck