shell compiler?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <771 at astrovax.UUCP> wls at astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) writes:
>In article <157 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.ARPA writes:
>>We have both an Adventure shell and a C shell implemented as Bourne
>>(SVR2) shell scripts, with acceptable performance.
>
>At least for the 4.2 BSD Bourne shell I don't agree that performance is
>acceptable for the Adventure shell.  I have never gotten very far in the
>adventure shell, before long I get tired of waiting for a response and quit.
>There are times it takes many minutes to respond to a command.

As is well known (I thought), the Bourne shell that is shipped with
4.2BSD (a) is rather buggy; (b) is rather slow.  That's why I
indicated the version of the Bourne shell in my posting.

By the way, I recently converted the Adventure shell to use shell
functions, which reduces its size somewhat.