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memory management: you say > Notice the big increase between HEAD~2400 and HEAD~2500. It turns out the increase is due to commit 489c672 to "Replace calls to AST Vmalloc with...

since I do care very much for the performance of ksh (as, I am sure, many ksh users will), I wrote a few further benchmarks. a typical comparison (same conditions...

@krader1961 : > Wow! That anyone thinks ksh is the appropriate tool for tasks such as computing the value of pi, other than in a "can this be done" way,...

@DavidMorano I appreciate this information. thank you. I understand that there are different use cases and metrices how to define "most suitable". and of course I don't object (why should...

> The problem is that it is assigning to shell var .sh.subscript a value having absolutely nothing to do with the documented meaning of that var. The code could have...

@kdudka. will stop now anyway. the present issue only concerns the (in my view) scandalous behaviour of rader to stall upcoming discussion by declaring the referred to issues as "closed"...

@aweeraman: it is also example # 666 why ksh2020 would not be a good choice for the default ksh in any distro (let alone a replacement of ksh93 altogether). ksh93u+...

@aweeraman: I believe this is very good news and the way to go: provide both shells, name the packages unambiguously to avoid confusion between ksh93 and ksh2020 and let the...

@aweeraman: thank you for this update. as said, having both options is good. having only ksh2020 is bad. I do hope other distros will follow your example... regarding > Meanwhile,...

> That is an implicit admission that ksh93v- is not a "good choice for the default ksh in any distro" s restoring factual correctness cont'd.: this is not an "impliciit...