[BusyBox] again: busybox is slow !!

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Johannes Zellner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as I got no response to may mail a few days ago:
> It takes about (at least) two seconds for the prompt
> to get back (for all of the shells hush, msh, ash).
> 
> OTOH executing multiple commands (in a script) is
> reasonable fast. Also a command like
> 
>     ls; ls; ls; ls; ls;
> 
> is reasonable fast: it takes about two seconds before
> the first ls starts, then the consecutive ls's are
> done immediately, after the last ls it takes again
> some two seconds for the prompt to come back.
> 
> This is really annoying!
> 
> (I linked busybox dynamically against libc).
> Any help much appreciated!

I as could have tried to test a turning out code ash+cmdedit, including by very
weak
machine: 486sx25 without coprocessor with libc5 and glibc2 and kernel 2.2.19 and
2.0.39...

I guess, that I should make to receive a numerous mention of it subject.


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