Is a compiled binary faster than the original script?

neurobin / shc

Shell script compiler

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Closed tsadarsh closed 2 years ago

tsadarsh commented 2 years ago

I read the README.md of shc and I am aware that:

...it rather encodes and encrypts a shell script...

Compiled programs are generally faster in speed and execution. Is that the case with the binaries compiled by shc?

neurobin commented 2 years ago

No. It will not be faster, rather slower.