while true (was Re: Must UNIX be a memory hog?)

[Jim Shankland]

In article <1197 at marvin.Solbourne.COM> dce at Solbourne.com (David Elliott) writes:
>The simplest speedup is to use a builtin command that returns
>true; specifically ":".  In other words, the fastest "while true"
>loop is actually
>
>	while :
>	do
>		...
>	done

Right; that's how I code my "while true" loops.  But what I haven't figured
out is:  how do I optimize my "while false" loops?

Jim Shankland
jas at ernie.berkeley.edu

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