On 4/12/15 5:56 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> Yes. I've been using gprof to study the code paths of some basic functions,
> and
> it seems like it spends quite some time in the find_variable() and related
> functions (IIRC, there was an mt_hash or something function taking up some
> precious time). I'm not sure if it might be better to have other kind of data
> structure for this. TBH, I'm not sure if there's even enough justification for
> this, other than to make bash startup faster.
mt_hash isn't a bash function. You might be running into an internal
malloc function from some libc implementation, or you might be running
into the devel branch's malloc debugging code. That code has a significant
effect on performance, and always has.
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