Builtins (including variable assignments without command word), function
calls and redirected compound commands need to restore file descriptors
to their original state after execution. This is handled by allocating a
redirtab structure. These mallocs and frees show up heavily in pmcstat.
Only allocate a redirtab if there are actually redirections and maintain a
count of how many levels of REDIR_PUSH there are without redirtabs.
A simple loop without external programs like
sh -c 'i=0; w=$(printf %0100d 7); while [ "$i" -lt 1000000 ]; do
i=$((i+1)); done'
is over 25% faster on an amd64 bhyve VM.
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