From ccf4cc874f3ef39967c65c932c2ac3a114115125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 23:39:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Use shell builtins instead of calling wc/awk/sed. (Fewer
 forks in build loop.) Based on suggestions from Nicholas Boichat.

---
 scripts/make.sh | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/make.sh b/scripts/make.sh
index 6c03b80..cd9c8b8 100755
--- a/scripts/make.sh
+++ b/scripts/make.sh
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ fi
 PENDING=
 LFILES=
 DONE=0
+COUNT=0
 for i in $FILES
 do
   # build each generated/obj/*.o file in parallel
@@ -246,16 +247,18 @@ do
   [ "$OUT" -nt "$i" ] && continue
   do_loudly $BUILD -c $i -o $OUT &
   PENDING="$PENDING $!"
+  COUNT=$(($COUNT+1))
 
   # ratelimit to $CPUS many parallel jobs, detecting errors
 
-  while true
+  for j in $PENDING
   do
-    [ $(echo "$PENDING" | wc -w) -lt "$CPUS" ] && break;
+    [ "$COUNT" -lt "$CPUS" ] && break;
 
-    wait $(echo "$PENDING" | awk '{print $1}')
+    wait $j
     DONE=$(($DONE+$?))
-    PENDING="$(echo "$PENDING" | sed 's/^ *[0-9]*//')"
+    COUNT=$(($COUNT-1))
+    PENDING="${PENDING## $j}"
   done
   [ $DONE -ne 0 ] && break
 done
-- 
2.7.4