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From: steve@cs.uow.edu.au (Stephen Cliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Overhead of raw-mode shells (Bash, Zsh, Ksh etc)
Message-ID: <1991May6.053630.569@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 6 May 91 05:36:30 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University
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Does anyone have any feeling for the overhead placed on a machine
by running the more modern shells that support command line editing. 

We would like to make either bash or zsh available to our students
and are a little concerned by the possible extra system overhead this
could impose due to the use of raw-mode and therfore conext switches
etc.

Thanks,

Steve.