Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:14:51 -0700

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>>Oh - there's another similarity between $(..) and $((..)). They're both 
>>POSIX 1003.2 standard features, so any "modern" shell should support them. 
>>Although in practice I don't know if that means anything else than ksh 
>>(where both syntaxes came from, actually).
> 
> 
> There is also dash (http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/).
> It complies with POSIX, is less than half the size of pdksh (83960 bytes
> currently on i386), and is faster than pdksh.

Current ash also has these features, and is about that size compiled 
static with klibc :)

	-hpa