From: Catalin Marinas Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:31:09 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update the bash prompt from 'applied' instead of the obsolete 'current' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070521074838.GA32510@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> On 21/05/07, Karl Hasselström wrote: > On 2007-05-20 23:22:00 +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > Calling stg is too slow to be be used here. I that command in my > > first draft for this function and people complained (see the thread > > named "Bash snippet to show branch and patch in bash prompt"). It > > takes ~ 0.15s on here which is very noticable, barely below my pain > > threshold. > > > > We'll update the prompt when and if Karl breaks this. > > Yes, I can confirm that I'm hard at work breaking this. :-) I'm trying > out a way to get around the performance bug Catalin found, but I > didn't have time to finish it yesterday. My plan is to release a 0.13 version pretty soon but without the DAG patches as we might have to test them a bit more. The release after 0.13 I'd like to be a 1.0-rc1 (including the DAG patches) unless we have some other major changes pending. > But it sucks that stg starts so slowly. It has gotten better, I > believe (I think Catalin did some work here?), but 150 ms doesn't > really qualify as "instantaneous". I don't think we can get much slower than this. I modified stg to only load the modules needed for a given command but it still takes around 150ms for a command like 'top'. I don't know any other python tricks to make it start faster. BTW, any of you would like to get added as a member to gna.org/projects/stgit (there are no advantages, only e-mail updates for filed bug reports)? Regards. -- Catalin