On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:37:05PM +0200, lobzang@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. 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. Andrea