Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chm.duque...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Ramil Farkhshatov <ra...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > it doesn't run match() on each item, that increases speed and > > reduces cpu usage. But conditions to run match() must be reconsidered: > > in this patch it is called once a second. > > Would it make sense to call match() only when there is nothing left to > read on stdin (in your example, that would be when readstdin() returns > 0)?
If dmenu starts matching after exhausting of data then it will not differ in behaviour from synchronous vanilla version. The condition may be something like: (time_since_last_match_ms > threshold_ms || items_since_last_match > threshold_nitems || data_exhausted)
