-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Chet Ramey on 11/21/2006 7:15 AM: >>> Chet Ramey wrote: >>>> When this option is on, bash has to check the hashed filename for >>>> each hash lookup. This essentially causes the hash entry to be >>>> deleted and re-added each time, which resets the number of hits to 1. >>>> (It could probably be done without the deletion and re-addition; I >>>> should look at that.) > > I looked, and it can. So performance will improve slightly, since there > doesn't need to be a redundant path search, and the `hit count', which is > just a coarse estimate of hashing effectiveness, will be more meaningful.
Any chance this can be made an official patch for 3.2, or do I have to wait until 4.0 to get this performance increase? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFZv6R84KuGfSFAYARAoTRAJ9bXZevtp/fWEfYzv2MKeuFCxYwjACg0MPy HrPWruP7K9YsxxDg2n10L0Q= =4Wug -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
