shell compiler?

[William L. Sebok]

In article <157 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at 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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