Re: Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I tested against 1.5.26.  I'll give 2.2.2 a shot and see what I find.
> However, when I looked at 2.2.2, it still seems to have a
> multi-thousand-line shell script; do you just expect the benefit to
> come from the new shell-specific optimizations?

Since shell scripts are not compiled, the size of a shell script has 
very little to do with its execution time.

Bob
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