Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:29:29 -0800 From: David Wiard <dave@srn.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: jimmy martin <hate00@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alias's Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000218142929.00926a10@paladin.srn.com> In-Reply-To: <20000218145155.C4423@hades.hell.gr> References: <3.0.5.32.20000215150719.0095cae0@paladin.srn.com> <3.0.5.32.20000211143912.009715d0@paladin.srn.com> <20000211045849.3263.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000211045849.3263.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000212000440.A15261@hades.hell.gr> <3.0.5.32.20000211143912.009715d0@paladin.srn.com> <20000215203410.A13013@hades.hell.gr> <3.0.5.32.20000215150719.0095cae0@paladin.srn.com>
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>Only for matters of efficiency one would care to note that one's path >contains duplicate directorye entries. A quick tour of the bin/c?sh >sources showed that both these shells use a hash to remember commands >that have been already executed; makes the PATH less and less important >as you continue using it. very interesting. i like that idea. the only possible hang up is when the hash table gets real big that's gotta soak up some memory, but these days, who cares. when you've got a machine running with 256 megs of memory, a shell's hash table isn't going to affect much, if anything. -- dave wiard (dave@srn.com) The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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