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  Re: Optimisation request Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-11-29 09:02 -0800

#14864 — Re: Optimisation request

On 11/26/18 1:29 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> I've noticed bash-5.0beta is quite a bit faster than bash-4.4 in running a
> lot of pure shell code. Good news.
> 
> One optimisation that isn't done yet: if a subshell function like
> 
>     f() (foo)
> 
> is used in a command substitution, it forks twice. I would like it if it
> could be optimised to eliminate the fork if the subshell function is the
> last command in the command substitution.

There is already code to optimize subshell commands like this; it's just
disabled until bash-5.1 so I have more time to test it.

Chet

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