share search, was: Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?
Subject: share search, was: Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:01:32 -0700
On 12/10/09, Harald Geyer <harald at lefant.net> wrote:
> However I can confirm that maxima stats each file below
> maxima/5.19.2/share/ recursively ...
>
> I can imagine that this causes problems on slow filesystems.
>
> I guess this behaviour is caused by the patch that allows maxima
> to construct it's search path for share-packages at runtime.
>
> Not sure what would be a solution that caters for everyone...
Well, maybe the list can be constructed automatically
just once when Maxima is built.
Did we consider that before? I don't remember.
best
Robert Dodier