Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-09 Thread meik michalke
hi, Am Montag, 8. August 2011, 10:49:52 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > RKWard currently runs installed.packages() on each session startup. When > many packages are installed, that can cost several seconds, esp. while the > disk cache is cold. Perhaps this pain could at least be shared i just

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-09 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Tuesday 09 August 2011, meik michalke wrote: > i just committed a small change to .rk.get.installed.packages() in svn. it > adds two new elements to the list, one is a logical vector (whether > "Enhances" in DESCRIPTION lists "rkward"), and the last one lists the > found pluginmaps with ful

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-09 Thread meik michalke
hi, am Dienstag 09 August 2011 (19:36) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > Why not limit the search to those packages with Enhances: rkward? funny, i remember starting that way, but not why i changed it... ;-) but you're right. > (Timing is a bit difficult, since the metric of interest is time sp

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-09 Thread meik michalke
hi, am Dienstag 09 August 2011 (19:36) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > In fact the scanning is faster than I had expected, though. But still, it > seems to make up ~10% of the time spend in .rk.get.installed.packages(), > and so perhaps that can be enhanced a bit. try again: - there's now th