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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: shell compiler?
Message-ID: <771@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 20:46:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: astrovax.771
Posted: Fri Apr 25 20:46:30 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Apr-86 05:17:33 EDT
References: <96@cstvax.UUCP> <796@brahma.cs.hw.AC.UK> <157@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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In article <157@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>We have both an Adventure shell and a C shell implemented as Bourne
>(SVR2) shell scripts, with acceptable performance.

At least for the 4.2 BSD Bourne shell I don't agree that performance is
acceptable for the Adventure shell.  I have never gotten very far in the
adventure shell, before long I get tired of waiting for a response and quit.
There are times it takes many minutes to respond to a command.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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