Re: [Haserl-users] Performance regression

[Ralph S. <ra...@ne...>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:30:51PM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> 
>  > For many systems, when the shell is bash, and both echo/printf
>  > are built-ins, there is likely not much difference. However,
>  > I am running haserl on an embedded system using 'ash' shell
>  > (from busybox). It has an option to make 'echo' a builtin, and
>  > I have that enabled, but there is no builtin version of printf.
> 
> But ash does have an option for printf as a builtin:
> 
> grep ASH_BUILTIN_ shell/Config.in
> config ASH_BUILTIN_ECHO
> config ASH_BUILTIN_PRINTF
> config ASH_BUILTIN_TEST

Hi Peter,

Thanks, you are right. I am using an old version of ash, from
busybox-1.2.1 (yes, 20 versions behind...), which lacks this option.
I shall have to look at updating "the whole world"...

-Ralph