Compiler for BASH scripts?

[Tom Mann]

Hi all,

As my title asks, is there a compiler for BASH scripts? For increasing the speed of one?

Also, if there were would we see any speed advantage in compiling the main startup scripts?

Cheers,
T

[y-lee]

There is a compiler, see The Bourne Shell Compiler for The Bourne Shell (also known as sh) which is almost the same thing. It is my understanding bash differs some here and there from sh so this compiler may not work with all scripts without some modification of the script.

As to system startup, that involves lots of disk I/O and so on, which is pretty much the slowest thing you can do on a computer. Even if the script were much faster , it'd still spend most of its time sleeping. So the speed of bash and the script is unlikely to matter much.