I did one as a joke a few years back. It's in my CPAN directory.

The real answer is "you can't" and "it's pointless". If you just emulated the shell, you'd get no speedup. You'd have to analyze every program called by the shell to determine why it's being called. Far too much AI to be useful.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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