[ale] compiled system calls versus shell scripts

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:43:05PM -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > 
> > Did you see the /. article a few weeks back about using make for booting - 
> > it showed that it works to run things in parallel, if you know the 
> > dependency ordering of stuff.
> 
> Link?  Now that is f**** cool.  I use make to build all my code.  Now I
> can use it as a rc script.

It really doesn't gain much, if any, speed on your average distro. Some of 
the RH people have been playing with a lot of the different suggestions like 
minit, l-boot, etc.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104706> is RH 
explaining that IBM's make isn't faster.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99540> is the big bug 
where people post lots of different ideas.

Those of you tracking Fedora will find it boots much faster than older RH.  
Biggest change there was eliminating one of the shells forked by every grep,
as I recall (ie, speedup by speeding up utils used in boot, which also
speeds up general use after boot)

later,
chris