On 26 November 2010 16:30, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: > 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).
With vanilla dmenu seq 100000 | dmenu works instantaneously for me. I see some 2s lack if I increase to seq 1000000 | dmenu though. But is 1M items a usual scenario? I kind of doubt that and the 2s penalty doesn't sound too bad imho. Cheers, Anselm
