On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:49:21PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: > Hi Yitzckak, > > On 13-Jan-2005 21:27, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > Achilles: Don't tell me you believe in fortune-telling! > > Tortoise: No...but they say it works even if you don't believe in it. > > -- GEB, Hofstadter > > > >I've made a new version of fortune available for installation. > > > > > Thanks for bracing the storm and doing this! > > One thing, though: this version is much, much slower than the previous > one. It takes around a second to produce a fortune, while the old one > ran pretty much instantaneously. (This is on a high end XP box.)
Is that the first time you run it, or every time? For me it goes much faster on subsequent runs, presumably due to disk cache. > When I run "strace fortune", the new version produces 16,771 lines of > output. The old version produces 467 lines... > I won't attach it to this message, for size reasons. I will actually try it in the next day or so, but I believe this is due to a bug in the old fortune version where the -a switch was disregarded and only a single fortune file checked. Additionally, the old fortune had fewer fortunes in far fewer files. Nevertheless, I will see if there's any way to speed up the selection from any files. As a workaround, you can cat together the base fortune files (those without a .dat or .u8 extension), run /usr/bin/strfile on it to create the .dat file, and create a .u8 symlink to it. Then run fortune without the -a switch but with your large file name. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/