On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:13:44AM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> Well, the issue is how much time is spent opening directories and checking
> for entries. Also on an NFS mounted file system, the directory has to be
> re-requested.
It may take just as long to parse the kpathsea configs, grovel through the
lsr file and locate the thing you need. I'd have to benchmark it to be sure.
> Actually, thinking about it. This may make automatic @INC adjustments.
> All the core needs to find is the ls-R, that would give it what to search.
Nope. kpathsea needs various config stuff to get it bootstrapped.
It's an idea, and a reasonably sensible one, but I'm really not sure it's
a win.
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