On 28/06/2011 3:21 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > I don't use bash-completion myself, but my understanding is > that it can be very slow, if for no other reason than fork() is > slow in cygwin. If your de-anti-pattern transformation causes > fewer calls to fork() -- and the above expr example suggests > it does -- it could be very worthwhile.
That's the basic underlying principle to start with, Ryan. That in general: Accessing memory << Calling a function << Forking a process. > Implementation-wise, you probably want to start here: > http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html You mean directly making those changes? I've never done that before, so I was hoping to catch the attention of a few of the package owners/contributors and give/take their help. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple