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[lobzang at free.fr]

Quoting Andrea Rossato <mailing_list at istitutocolli.org>:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:37:05PM +0200, lobzang at free.fr wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently upgraded xmonad / XMonadContrib, and now I have performance
> problem
> > using ShellPrompt... ( response time whe typing)
>
> ShellPrompt went over some refactoring recently, and knowing the
> version you are using (darcs, pulled when?) is important.

using darcs today's version : http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib



>
> Basically, there are 2 versions: the first one uses Readline - non too
> bad. I tried using bash compgen (also to remove the readline
> requirement), but with a vary bad performance.
>
> So I switched to the Haskell function getDirectoryContent, which is
> better in my system. My tests show that getDirectoryContet has a
> performance similar to readline, without the extra library requirement.
>
> I'm running a centrino laptop (at 1 Ghz) with 512 Mb of Ram. While the
> firefox open-with dialog takes 3 minutes to open /usr/bin/ ShellPrompt does
> it in 3-5 seconds which is not too bad. But I'm open to suggestion on
> how to improvement it.

well before ShellPrompt was fast as speed of light, now this is like dmenu :D


>
> Andrea
>
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