[Bash-completion-devel] After adding bash-completion to .bashrc loading prompt is slow

[David Paleino]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:40:31 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On 04/02/2011 04:44 PM, Martin Lundberg wrote:
> 
> > source /usr/local/etc/bash_completion
> > 
> > The problems is that it makes the loading of new terminal windows very
> > slow. If I remove the line the loading is instant. When I add the line
> > the I have to wait maybe 1-2 second for the prompt to show. I know
> > it's not much but it's enough to be annoying.
> 
> Yes, loading the completions takes time, but there are some
> opportunities for improving this in future bash-completion releases.
> 1-2 seconds is however much more than what I'm accustomed to.
> 
> $ time . ~/cvs/bash-completion/bash_completion
> real	0m0.539s
> user	0m0.403s
> sys	0m0.097s
> 
> (This is an Athlon64 3200+ Linux box with an SSD disk.)

I guess it also depends whether you have it already loaded or not.

On my system, at first load:

real	0m5.677s
user	0m0.736s
sys	0m0.192s

Second (and sequent) load(s):

real	0m1.076s
user	0m0.716s
sys	0m0.104s

But I guess I'm really patient :)

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