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Re: file-name-shadow-mode
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David Kastrup |
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Re: file-name-shadow-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:04:08 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> How 'bout the patch below which makes no assumption (that I know of) about
>> substitute-in-file-name, and will thus work correctly even with weird
>> magic file name handlers.
>
> Regarding performance of my code: I just bumped into a performance
> problem. The problem is that substitute-in-file-name can take a
> non-negligible amount of time to execute when there's a "~user" in
> the file name, because it calls getpwnam to figure out whether
> "user" actually exists or not.
>
> At least here with 8K users in our YP database, my code causes
> file-name-shadow-mode to take around 0.5-1s to refresh the screen
> after each key stroke if there's a ~user in the file name I'm
> editing.
You have seen Richard's proposal of going backwards linearly from the
end and only checking at the "critical" characters like ~, / and $?
It should also be possible to cache a piece of the last shadowing
action and don't look again if no "critical" character has been added
after the previous one in the nonshadowed section.
But actually, I think my proposal about a C level interface into
substitute-in-file-name would be most efficient, robust and
unproblematic in the long run, and possibly useful for other
applications as well.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, (continued)
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Miles Bader, 2005/03/21
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/21
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/21
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/21
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/21
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/23
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/25
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/25
Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/18