On 26 November 2010 15:27, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well the question is if the bottleneck is the input writer or dmenu > reading the input. The problems I remember from the past where all > related to the input writer (for example dmenu_path taking some time > to create it's output) but not dmenu creating the input item list.
That's fair. We could do some testing to see whether dmenu reading a *lot* of data from a pipe is noticeably slow, or whether it's just dmenu_path's sorting (which obviously we can't do anything about). cls
