Re: Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> I know you are a fan of testing things thoroughly in the test suite, but I
>> have to say that it is getting out of hand, in particular due to our
>> over-use of shell script idioms (which really only run fast on Linux, not
>> a good idea for a portable software).
>
> How much effort would it take to optimize a /bin/sh?
>
> Would replacing uses of fork+execve posix_spawn be fast and
> portable enough?
>
> Even on Linux, performance sucks for me.  I've been hoping dash
> can use posix_spawn (or using vfork directly) to see if that can
> help things.