On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:46:17 +0100 Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote:
> Hey all, > > I've been tinkering with dmenu the last few days. I think it would be > good to get a 4.3 release out at some point soon, so if anyone could > report any bugs to me that would be swell. > A brief list of changes: > > In terms of SLOC, tip is about the size of 4.0 and most of the 3.x > series, with a current count of 683 lines of C and 7 of shell script. > (Which is quite small, considering it now has a cursor, vertical > lines, and paste.) > > It ought to be a lot faster. The main data structure now uses an > array, and I've optimised incremental search, so the longer you type > the quicker matching will become; and jumping to the last menu item is > now O(1). It only starts to get noticeably sluggish on an Atom netbook > when dealing with half a million items or so. > > dmenu_path is a shell script again. Based on my tests it's slightly > slower than the C version, but is still a lot faster than the original > script, so I think that's acceptable -- I don't notice a cache miss, > with a few thousand executables. (Use '-f' or a watcher process and > you're golden.) > > For portability, dmenu is now ANSI C90, which more compilers support > than C99, and dmenu_path is POSIX compliant, whereas the old script > wasn't. I also checked the Makefile is POSIX compliant and works with > BSD make. ;) > > Any bugs, tell me! > > Thanks, > cls > Sounds good! Dieter
