On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:11:28AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/16/2015 11:10 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >commit cd1467383450613b0d63d5679afdd95c85a600d8 > >Author: Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> > >Date: Tue Jun 16 17:03:32 2015 +0200 > > > > Avoid unnecessary growth of python lists > > The path argument of checkProg* was added to the PATH list in a nested > > loop such that the list doubles in size each time the loop is executed, > > thus also slowing down detection of missing programs. > > Is this do-able for stable as well? I've been wondering why some > configuration searches took so long.
Yes the problem is also present in stable and manifests when more programs are checked at once. Would you like to backport this? -- Enrico
