document on how to speed up shell execution

Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@brief.schottelius.org>
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+SPEEDING UP SHELL EXECUTION
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+On the source host, ensure that /bin/sh is *not* bash: bash is quite slow for
+script execution. Instead, you could use dash after installing it:
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+ln -sf /bin/dash /bin/sh
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+

 MULTI MASTER OR ENVIRONMENT SETUPS
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