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From: scott@cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: shell compiler?
Message-ID: <96@cstvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Apr-86 12:42:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 12 12:42:06 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Apr-86 08:47:27 EST
Reply-To: scott@cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach)
Organization: Unix Support, Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre
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Have any of you wizards out there any idea of how much of the time a
shell script spends being interpreted by the shell and how much it
spends actually doing the work?  Would a program which turned a shell
script into an equivalent C program (which would handle i/o
redirections, fork/exec the appropriate commands, etc.) usefully
improve the speed of my scripts?  Has anybody ever used such a beast?
Is there one in the public domain?

Many Thanks 

- Scott
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