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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re^2: Must UNIX be a memory hog?
Keywords: TZ, uucp LCK... files
Message-ID: <2562@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 May 89 18:44:13 GMT
References: <159@zebra.UUCP> <1608@auspex.auspex.com> <2@minya.UUCP>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
\...
\On this system, as on several others, I've replaced /bin/true and /bin/false
\with executables (which will be left as an exercise for the reader, since
\posting them would be an intellectual insult to any True Unix Wizards ;-).
\I've verified that the result is a measurable speedup in "while true"
\loops, due to the elimination of the shell startup to run an empty script.

True Unix Wizards do:

	while :
	do
		...
	done
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