On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:36:06 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > > It's not smart loading everything on login, but it is doing it > > when the command is actually being completed. So it's really needed, apart > > from speed performance. > > Dumb question: has anyone evaluated the performance characteristics of if > completion modules were instead of sourced shell functions implemented as > executable scripts (not necessarily even shell ones) that would just be > called with the appropriate environment and options, and that would echo > their results to stdout, and used with complete -C?
No, didn't even think at that. > This way I suppose the amount of stuff to load at startup would decrease > radically but the scripts would be continuously loaded and invoked anew for > every completion in every shell. Well, we should really adopt Freddy's implementation IMHO, as it sounds cleaner (even if the directory structure is just a mess ;-)) Ville, if you feel this is something to be discussed, add it to the Proposal page (or, you could even create a new "Research" page, to experiment things like this) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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