Echo – Assembly program that prints the first positional argument to stdout

Re:Echo – Assembly program that prints the first positional ... by mistaken on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:07AM (#13299740)

I guess it's because the echo command included in the shell was slow.

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Re:Echo – Assembly program that prints the first positional ... by pm215 on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:04AM (#13300663)

The cost of fork+exec of a separate binary will make even the most efficient possible external echo slower than the shell builtin, I suspect. (This is why echo is a builtin in the first place, though there's no requirement for it to be so.)

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