Compilers for shell scripts

Question

Do you know if there\'s any tool for compiling bash scripts?

It doesn\'t matter if that tool is just a translator (for example, something that converts a bash scrip

Answer 1

In theory you could actually get a good performance boost.

Think of all the

if [ x"$MYVAR" == x"TheResult" ]; then echo "TheResult Happened" fi

(note invocation of test, then echo, as well as the interpreting needed to be done.)

which could be replaced by

if ( !strcmp(myvar, "TheResult") ) printf("TheResult Happened");

In C: no process launching, no having to do path searching. Lots of goodness.