Overhead of raw-mode shells (Bash, Zsh, Ksh etc)

[Randy S. Welch]

In article <1991May6.053630.569 at cs.uow.edu.au> steve at cs.uow.edu.au (Stephen Cliffe) writes:

   Does anyone have any feeling for the overhead placed on a machine
   by running the more modern shells that support command line editing. 

   We would like to make either bash or zsh available to our students
   and are a little concerned by the possible extra system overhead this
   could impose due to the use of raw-mode and therfore conext switches
   etc.

The biggest problem with bash is it's size, its alot bigger than sh :-)
There are 3 of us at work who use bash and another using a real old ksh,
with no undue effects on our old '020 box.

-randy
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