Re: [Nano-devel] the compiled size of nano

[Mike Frysinger]

On 09 Mar 2016 11:29, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 21:52, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > On my old system, the version that uses gnulib definitely
> > feels slower at startup.  I will instrument some timing.
> 
> It was pure imagination -- it makes no difference.  If there
> is any difference, it's in the one to two percent range.  The
> user can achieve much bigger wins by not including all of the
> syntaxes but only the ones that are actually used sometimes.
> And by compiling with --disable-libmagic.
> 
> Hmm...  Maybe we need a run-time option too, --nomagic,
> 'set nomagic'?  To be able to avoid a terribly slow startup
> when a file doesn't match any syntax by extension nor by
> header line?

sounds fine to me.  i've found when building w/asan, the startup
can be significantly different, and i wonder if magic is the cause.
-mike

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