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Re: replace true(1) and false(1) with simple shell scripts


From: David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:49:09 -0800

Matthew Dillon wrote:
    We are going to stick with the C version.  There is no reason to nerf
    the performance of the programs even if one assumes that they will
    hardly ever be used in a time-critical situation.  It certainly isn't
    worth the byte-savings for the files since they are already only
    3280 bytes each.

But the assembly versions allow the following loop to run in half the time:


while true; do done;


;-)




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