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[Phyx]

Hi Simon,

Hmm I'm not sure about replacing sh with bash. I think bash has some
Non-POSIX extensions that may affect the behavior of valid posix scripts.

Is bash --login slow as well? How about once sh or bash starts, are
commands still slow then?

I assume your computer is domain joined and you may be hitting a very long
standing issue with certain domain joined machines
https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/138#issuecomment-70813762

The solution seems to be to cache the user info locally instead of it
having to query the domain controller everytime. See solution 2 here
https://gist.github.com/k-takata/9b8d143f0f3fef5abdab for instructions

Does that help the problem?

I believe you had a similar problem last time setting up a new machine. At
that time magit was also slow.

Kind regards,
Tamar

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 23:23 Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Tamar
>
> I’ve noticed that “sh” (which is invoked at lot by make etc) takes AGES to
> start up.  At least I think it’s ‘sh’ that is causing the delay.
>
> I think it’s c:/msys64/usr/bin/sh.exe
>
> From searching the web (eg
> https://www2.cs.duke.edu/csl/docs/unix_course/intro-60.html)  it seems
> likely that it executes c:/msys64/etc/profile first.
>
> And If I put an ‘echo’ at the start and end of that file, they do seem to
> take place with a significant gap between them.
>
> I have not started sprinkling more echos, but does that ring any bells?
>
> Can I replace ‘sh’ with c:/msys64/usr/bin/bash.exe, which seems to be
> faster?   (My evnt variable SHELL already points to bash.exe. )  And if so,
> how would I do that? An environment variable.  Physically copy bash.exe to
> sh.exe?  Or what?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
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