Re: bash hash bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Chet Ramey on 11/21/2006 7:15 AM:
>>> Chet Ramey wrote:
>>>> When this option is on, bash has to check the hashed filename for
>>>> each hash lookup.  This essentially causes the hash entry to be
>>>> deleted and re-added each time, which resets the number of hits to 1.
>>>> (It could probably be done without the deletion and re-addition; I
>>>> should look at that.)
> 
> I looked, and it can.  So performance will improve slightly, since there
> doesn't need to be a redundant path search, and the `hit count', which is
> just a coarse estimate of hashing effectiveness, will be more meaningful.

Any chance this can be made an official patch for 3.2, or do I have to
wait until 4.0 to get this performance increase?

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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