Mate Nagy <mn...@port70.net> writes: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:09:33PM +0200, Premysl Hruby wrote: >> > Conclusion: 0.7 seconds is somewhat noticeable lag. It's another >> > question whether it's worth the effort to write the C program, but >> > hey, it's been done already. >> >> Well, I (and others possibly) have no concern about cache miss, my files >> in $PATH doesn't changes every five minutes :-) > I have cache misses rather often, and the delay *is* annoying. I'd be a > happy user of the C rewrite.
I'm wondering, would it speed up the program if the script spawned a background process for every entry in $PATH? I imagine quite a lot of the runtime is spent waiting for I/O, so simple threading would be a win. That said, I don't think I've ever tried parallelising a shell script. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
