If anybody is interested -- I think I've hacked some nice solution for this. Seems to be working for me.
http://ucore.info/en/2011/03/faster-bash-completion-loading/ https://github.com/dpc/bash_completion dpc@mutex:~$ time . /etc/bash_completion.orig real 0m0.614s user 0m0.360s sys 0m0.120s dpc@mutex:~$ time . /etc/bash_completion.new real 0m0.168s user 0m0.120s sys 0m0.010s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org