"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:46:41 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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But I don't see why that non embedded systems don't switch to using
perl - it would probably be more efficient as you wouldn't be spawning
hundreds of
processes running cut and grep and so on during system startup.

We saved 50% of the boot time for unix by taking the bits of source
from the various startup programs that were run and compiling it into
one process. Not bad for a couple of hours work.

Would be a waste of effort here, given the infrequent reboots.

Its a waste of time for 99.999% of users, but not when you have system
availability requirements that allow a few seconds a year downtime.