Is sh script faster than csh script ?

Amos Shapir amos at taux01.UUCP
Tue Sep 12 07:31:15 AEST 1989


In article <5292 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lee at iris.Ucdavis.EDU (Peng Lee) writes:
>It seems that csh used a lot more memory, io, and had 2 pages fault.
>
>Would any unix.wizards out there explain why csh is so slow?  Or did I
>use the wrong command in the script?   

If your .cshrc is big, it might slow things down considerably - it's read
on every sub-shell.

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