Re^2: Must UNIX be a memory hog?

[Maarten Litmaath]

jc at 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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