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Re: global cshrc change suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Jun 17 20:32:31 1996
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 20:32:20 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> Whether setting the path is actually an expensive operation these days
>> (when done multiple times, that is; obviously it's [expensive] the
>> first time) is open to debate, but I'd rather not abandon that design
>> requirement (in a way that would screw us if we wanted to go back on
>> it) without consideration.
I submit for your consideration:
With my patch, the path will be set twice in quick succession; unless
the .path file ignores a substantial part of the $path, the expensive
part of the first path set is cached, and will be cheap the next time.
Marc
