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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by est on Sunday July 01, 2012 @09:14AM (#4184625)
starts too slow.
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by pjmlp on Sunday July 01, 2012 @02:04PM (#4185574)
on my PC it is instantaneous, it is a matter of hardware.
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by shortlived on Sunday July 01, 2012 @06:06PM (#4186310)
No, it's not. I have a TI6x laptop, 4gb of RAM, plenty o' CPU and with no other user-space programs running, it still takes FOREVER to start. I feel like i'm launching Eclipse or something.
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by pjmlp on Monday July 02, 2012 @12:10PM (#4189424)
Try it on a T410, i7 with 8GB of RAM and a SSD, it takes 2s to start.
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by shortlived on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @02:23PM (#4195427)
it's a SHELL for God's sake! I shouldn't need 8GB and SSD!!!
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by archangel_one on Sunday July 01, 2012 @06:51PM (#4186411)
it is not a matter of hardware. On my ex-work desktop (2.8GHz quad core, so fairly quick) it used to take a good 5-10 seconds to be ready from a cold start. Yes, subsequent starts were faster, but it's a flipping shell, it shouldn't need hefty hardware to start quickly!
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by EnderMB on Monday July 02, 2012 @06:10AM (#4188189)
Absolutely. Even on my work machine (2.2GhZ, 4GB RAM) it loads within a second.
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by drivebyacct2 on Monday July 02, 2012 @12:37AM (#4187343)
Yeah, I can also handily disagree with this. My test machine has a 6 month old CPU and 6GB of RAM. I can reboot, wait 5 minutes and try to launch PowerShell and still be looking at a 5-15 second wait.
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Re:Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsof... by SpikeMeister on Sunday July 01, 2012 @10:12PM (#4186937)
I have the same problem.
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