Re: Expensiveness of searching load-path

Tuesday, 12 May 1998


        Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; writes:

...
 Three possibilities that I can see:
 - cat  the  auto-autoload and  the   dumped-lisp  files together,  put
   everything in one  directory, reduce the  load-path to two or  three
   directories. This  breaks  the packaging, unless  you implement that
   mainly  with a forest of symbolic   links. But afaik, symbolic links
   aren't available in winblows. 
This is on the schedule.  It does not require symbolic links and it
will not break packaging.

...
 - cache the  directories content list in memory  at startup, update
it
   automatically by checking   for  a  directory date change   when  an
   unknown file is asked for or an accessed cached file is absent. Then
   fight with buggy NFS implementations
 - same as 2, but cache on  disk (aka, kpathsea). This also accelerates
   startup. 
...
 My personal feeling is that anything different than the first
solution
 should wait for 21.1. 
Right.

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